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The article describes the programme and initiatives of the “Wolność i Pokój” (WiP) Movement concerning international policy. The WiP maintained a wide international contacts supporting the disarmament and unification of Europe and demanding the withdrawal of the Soviet army from Poland and the termination of the Warsaw Pact. The above programme was reflected in common documents of the opposition groups in both Central and Eastern European countries and western peace movements. As a consequence, the western peace movements ceased to be a tool in the hands of Communists and became the allies of the democratic opposition in the Central and Eastern European countries. The article presents the programme discussions conducted with the western peace activists, in particular the role of the WiP in initiating the Memorandum entitled “Tchnąć prawdziwe życie w porozumienia helsińskie” (Breath true life into the Helsinki agreements), the main initiative of Central and Eastern European opposition activists and peace movements in the mid-80s. The discussions were continued at the international seminar entitled “International peace and Helsinki agreements” held in Warsaw in May 1987, which initiated similar meetings in Budapest, Moscow, Prague and Krakow. The international programme of the “Wolność i Pokój” Movement was recreated on the basis of this statement and the articles of the Movement activists. An important role was played by the concept of political disarmament, considering freedom, democracy, human rights and cooperation between societies of the East and West as the conditions for permanent peace. Political disarmament is something more that technical disarmament, concerning the amount of weapon, dates of its decommission, etc., however without the control exercised by the societies. One of the features of the “Wolność i Pokój” Movement programme was the acknowledgement that changes within the Soviet Union should be used for improvement of the geopolitical situation of Poland. The activities of the WiP were also reflected in the superficial look of the Jaruzelski’s plan, presented in the forum of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and supported by the states-parties to the Warsaw Pact. The WiP postulates, concerning the withdrawal of alien armies from their territories, the termination of the Warsaw Pact and the integration of a divided Europe seemed unreal to the majority of the opposition activists, however were implemented soon after. The cited opinions of the head activists of “Solidarity” and foreign journalists prove that they perceived the crucial role played by the “Wolność i Pokój” Movement in the end of the Communist regime.
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In the mid-1980s, Poland, fighting for a return to the international political arena after imposing diplomatic sanctions on it due to the imposition of martial law in 1981, engaged in two disarmament projects. These were works within the PZPR-SPD working group and Jaruzelski’s plan announced in 1987. Both of these initiatives referred to earlier Polish concepts, first of all the Rapacki plan and the Gomułka plan. The initiative to establish a joint working group came from the West German Social Democrats, who saw in it the possibility of breaking the international isolation of Poland, and for the SPD to remain in international circulation. The Jaruzelski plan, harmonizing with the plan of Mikhail Gorbachev, was an expression of the changes taking place under the influence of perestroika in both Poland and the USSR. Consulted with other states of the Warsaw Pact, mainly from the USSR (a delegation of experts from the USSR took active part in its formation) became the basis for other disarmament / peaceful socialist countries.
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W połowie lat 80. XX wieku Polska, walcząc o powrót na międzynarodową arenę polityczną po nałożeniu na nią sankcji dyplomatycznych z powodu wprowadzenie stanu wojennego w 1981 r., zaangażowała się w dwa projekty rozbrojeniowe – prace w ramach grupy roboczej PZPR-SPD i plan Jaruzelskiego ogłoszony w 1987 r. Obie inicjatywy nawiązywały do wcześniejszych polskich koncepcji, przede wszystkim planu Rapackiego i planu Gomułki. Inicjatywa powołania wspólnej grupy roboczej wyszła ze strony zachodnioniemieckich socjaldemokratów, którzy widzieli w niej możliwości przełamania izolacji międzynarodowej Polski, a dla SPD szansę pozostania w obiegu międzynarodowym. Natomiast plan Jaruzelskiego harmonizujący z planem Michaiła Gorbaczowa był wyrazem przemian zachodzących pod wpływem pierestrojki zarówno w Polsce, jak i ZSRR. Konsultowany z innymi państwami Układu Warszawskiego, głównie ze Związkiem Radzieckim (delegacja ekspertów z tego kraju brała aktywny udział w jego kształtowaniu), stał się podstawą dla innych inicjatyw rozbrojeniowych/pokojowych państw socjalistycznych.
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