Polish Round Table Accord allowed Communists to hold key positions

Round Table Accord was signed on 4 April 1989 between

Opposition [edit]

• Piotr Baumgart

• Zbigniew Bujak

• Andrzej Celiński

• Rafał Czwojdrak

• Jan Dworak

• Marek Edelman

• Władysław Frasyniuk

• Bronisław Geremek

• Ryszard Górny

• Jarosław Jon

• Jarosław Kaczyński

• Lech Kaczyński

• Krzysztof Kozłowski

• Wiktor Kulerski

• Zofia Kuratowska

• Jacek Kuroń

• Bogdan Lis

• Kamila Majewska

• Tadeusz Mazowiecki

• Jacek Merkel

• Adam Michnik

• Jan Olszewski

• Janusz Onyszkiewicz

• Alojzy Pietrzyk

• Jan Rokita

• Janusz Sanocki

• Krystyna Starczewska

• Andrzej Stelmachowski

• Janusz Szulc

• Jerzy Turowicz

• Lech Wałęsa

• Andrzej Wielowieyski

Communist[edit]

• Władysław Baka

• Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

• Marian Orzechowski

• Józef Czyrek

• Kazimierz Cypryniak

• Wojciech Rygulski

• Filip Czylok

• Andrzej Gdula

• Czesław Kiszczak

• Mikołaj Kozakiewicz

• Aleksander Kwaśniewski

• Leszek Miller

• Alfred Miodowicz

• Pulchny Niedźwiedź

• Andrzej Olechowski

• Józef Oleksy

• Janusz Reykowski

• Marcin Święcicki    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement

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   Andrzej Gwiazda, who was one of the leaders of the so-called First Solidarity (August 1980 – December 1981), claims that the Round Table Agreement and the negotiations that took place before it at a Communist government's Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Poland) conference center (late 1988 and early 1989) in the village of Magdalenka had been arranged by Moscow.  According to Gwiazda, who himself did not take part in the negotiations, the Soviets "carefully selected a group of opposition activists, who passed on as representatives of the whole [Polish] society, and made a deal with them".^[2]

  This notion was supported by Anna Walentynowicz, who in an interview given in 2005 stated that the Agreement was a "success of the Communists, not of the nation".  According to Walentynowicz, Czesław Kiszczak and Wojciech Jaruzelski, who initiated the negotiations, "safeguarded their own safety and (...) influence on the government". Walentynowicz claims that the talks were organized so that in the future, "no Communist criminal, murderer or thief would pay for their crimes".^[3]

  Macierewicz regards the negotiations and the agreement as a "classic Soviet plot of the secret services”.  In his opinion, both Kiszczak and Jaruzelski were "at every stage controlled by their Soviet overseers (...) and their autonomy was minimal".  As Macierewicz said in February 2009, the Round Table was a "tactical success of the parts of the elites, but from the point of view of national interests of Poland, it was a failure”.^[4]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement

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^{10-15-2018     At 1:54 of video:     https://}www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/30340-alex-newman-pawel-chojecki-polish-pastor-exposes-commies

  ^{“It’s on a level behind them (the elected Poles), and in all these places are former Communists, their families, colleagues.  We call it a “Communist clique.”    -Polish Pastor Paweł Chojecki}