This leader took absolute power in a coup triggered by the radical sentiment of the Radom Meeting, and faced an abortive invasion supposedly codenamed "Operation Krkonose.
This leader took absolute power in a coup triggered by the radical sentiment of the Radom Meeting, and faced an abortive invasion supposedly codenamed "Operation Krkonose." This politician reorganized several parties into the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth, amusingly abbreviated PRON. He appeared on television to proclaim that his nation was on the "brink of an abyss," the codewords to begin a never-realized (*) Soviet invasion. In 2008, the IPN put this man on trial brutal crackdown which entrenched him as dictator in 1982. A case of snow blindness acquired at a Kazakh labour led to to the trademark dark red-tinted sunglasses worn by this man, who was ousted after his party engaged in the Round Table talks with Lech Walesa and Solidarity. For 10 points, name this dictator who from 1981 to 1990 ruled as Poland's last Communist head of state.
This leader took absolute power in a coup triggered by the radical sentiment of the Radom Meeting, and faced an abortive invasion supposedly codenamed "Operation Krkonose.
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski