Poland's modern history  Flagging up the past  One of the great
intellectuals of post-1989 Europe gives his verdict on what
happened when the Berlin Wall fell and communism finally
collapsed  See article  Readers' comments     Do you mean back
in those days the communist secret service officers didn't even
have an allowance to offer Michnic a bier ? And that coffee, -
was it brewed from imported beans or from beans made in USSR ?
Adam Michnik then met with officers of the communist secret
service for a coffee in a cafe na Rozdrożu and thanked them that
they let him finish his studies in Poznań. Workers' Defence
Committee was established by Antoni Macierewicz in 1976, later
was invaded by the Trotskyists as Kuroń and Michnik.   Adam16
wrote: "I admire Michnik for not leaving a Poland and a have
peacefull life somewhere else."  No clear what do you admire and
why.  After being expelled from the university for his
activities during 1968 Polish political crisis, Michnik was
arrested and sentenced to three years