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This study aims to determine whether the decision of the V Lustration Department of the Court of Appeal in Warsaw issued in 2000, that Lech Wałęsa was not a secret collaborate of the former Security Service of the Polish People’s Republic (PPR), was a correct one. Marek Aftyka’s “briefing memo” and Proceedings of Regional Court in Gdańsk I Civil Department in 2010 in a case brought by Lech Wałęsa against Krzysztof Wyszkowski were researched in this article. It is stated that individual decisions of judges in 2000 were wrong in this case, which was confirmed on February 16, 2016 by finding the personal and working files of the secret collaborate codename “Bolek”. Analysis of the sources demonstrated that Wałęsa he did not consider the cooperation with the prosecution and security institutions, as well as with the state of real socialism as something wrong. At the same time, former Polish president, as a well-trained agent, will never admit to the cooperation.
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The aim of the article is to analyze the circumstances, preparations, course and assessment of the visit of the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to Poland on November 2–4, 1988. It was the first visit of a leader of a Western power to Poland after the introduction of the martial law in December 1981 and the first visit of a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the history of British-Polish relations. Therefore, the analyzed event should be treated as an important moment in the process of overcoming the political isolation in which the communist authorities of Poland found themselves after the “Solidarity” crisis of 1980–1981. Moreover, the visit took place at a critical moment in Polish history: three months before the start of the Round Table Talks (February–April 1989), when the fate of this project seemed to be very uncertain. In these circumstances Margaret Thatcher’s aim was not only to develop bilateral relations between the countries but also to support the Polish opposition (Solidarity movement) and to put pressure on the Polish government to start the negotiations as well as to dynamize the whole process of the democratization. The article is based primarily on the sources available in the National Archives (Kew, London).
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Celem artykułu pozostaje analiza okoliczności, przygotowań, przebiegu oraz oceny wizyty premier Wielkiej Brytanii, Margaret Thatcher, w Polsce w dniach 2-4 listopada 1988 r. Omawiane wydarzenie było pierwszą wizytą przywódcy zachodniego mocarstwa po wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego w 1981 r. i w ogóle pierwszym w historii pobytem premiera Zjednoczonego Królestwa nad Wisłą, stanowiło też ważny moment w procesie przezwyciężania izolacji politycznej, w jakiej znalazły się komunistyczne władze Polski po kryzysie solidarnościowym  lat 1980-1981. Co więcej, wizyta ta miała miejsce w krytycznym momencie historii Polski - na trzy miesiące przed rozpoczęciem rozmów Okrągłego Stołu (luty-kwiecień 1989), kiedy losy tego projektu wydawały się bardzo niepewne. Biorąc pod uwagę okoliczności, celem Margaret Thatcher pozostawało nie tylko rozwijanie dwustronnych stosunków między obydwoma państwami, ale też wsparcie Solidarności, wywarcie nacisku na władze PRL odnośnie rozpoczęcia negocjacji z opozycją oraz wprowadzenie polityczno-gospodarczych reform. Artykuł opiera się na literaturze tematu oraz przede wszystkim na źródłach dostępnych w brytyjskim Archiwum Narodowym (Londyn, Kew).
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