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- 4 November - „Solidarity” approaches the authorities with its own proposal to overcome the economic crisi; it also demands access to television, reform of the prosecution system and guarantees for independent jurisdiction.
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- 25 November - Minister of Internal Affairs general Czesław Kiszczak recommends that his subordinates should refer in their propaganda activities to a threat of Soviet intervention.
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- 2 December - Special police units using helicopters break a strike in the fire-fighters college in Warsaw.
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General Wojciech Jaruzelski:
The crisis has moved into its culminating phase. The counterrevolutionary forces overtly disclosed their intentions. […] In the nearest future, we should try to approach the state of confrontation imposed by the opponent from the best positions. Not one step back. […]
We will have to make decisions of utmost responsibility. We have enough experience to fight desperately for that which can be saved. I counted on workers’ class instinct. Unfortunately, we proved to be too week, inept; we failed to go full steam ahead. We made wrong decisions and assessments. But we meant well and still do.
It is a terrible, macabre shame that, after 36 years in power, the party must be defended by police force. But there is nothing else for us to do. One should be prepared to make decisions that will permit to save the basics.
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 General Wojciech Jaruzelski, prime minister and communist party 1st secretary, declaring martial law - 13 December 1981 (photo: ADM).
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 „Solidarity” was a peaceful, non-violence movement.
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