All the Polish dailies write extensively on the just released book alleging communist cooperation by Lech Walesa, former trade union and human rights activist.
The controversial book about the legendary Solidarity leader and former Polish President Lech Walesa, “Secret services and Lech Walesa. A Contribution to the Biography” is out on sale today, reminds Rzeczpospolita broadsheet.
Whether the publication by two historians from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) will or will not ultimately destroy the legend of the vanquisher of Communism is not certain yet, but the long queues outside the main bookshop at the seat of the publisher IPN suggest that the book could be a bestseller.
In the article “The image of a hero does not have to be crystal-clear”, published by Dziennik daily on the first day of sale of the book about Walesa, the newspaper points out that the discussion about the Solidarity leader’s alleged collaboration with the Communist secret services in 1970s. has been mostly dominated by Walesa’s defenders. They wrongly believe in the daily’s opinion that those who attempt to shed some more light on Lech Walesa past, simply want to destroy a national legend.
Gazeta Wyborcza writes that the latest publication may give rise to the reopening of Lech Walesa’s vetting procedure. The newspaper points out that according to the applicable law, vetting proceedings may be reopened within 10 years from a court verdict if new evidence emerges against a defendant. The daily also reminds that in 2000, the Vetting Court found Lech Walesa ‘not guilty’ of collaboration with the Communist services and ruled that the evidence against him had been forged by secret services agents.
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