His name was once written on the streets of Warsaw—and in the hearts of millions of Poles—in revenge and blood. In Gdansk, a city by the Baltic Sea, where the Solidarity Labor Union was born in 1980, the local people still remember Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the iron man who was skilled at wielding his sword of death, cutting short the lives of youths who were fighting to regain their freedom.

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