Poland's Jaruzelski Wanted Soviet Invasion

Radio Free Europe
WARSAW (Reuters) -- Poland's last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, wanted Soviet troops to invade his country in 1981 to help crush striking workers, according to a document published today by the state archives institute.

Jaruzelski, now 86, has always insisted that he declared martial law in December 1981 precisely to avert the kind of Soviet military intervention that had crushed pro-democracy supporters in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968.


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