Solidarity legend and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa has called on the United States to fulfill its security guarantees to Ukraine.
Lech Wałęsa, former President of Poland speaks at the Global Soft Power Summit 2025 at QEII Centre in London, England, UK on Thursday 20 February 2025.Photo: Justin Ng/PAP/Avalon
An open letter on the issue was signed by numerous former political prisoners of communist Poland, as well as activists from the Solidarity movement and the Workers’ Defense Committee, including Seweryn Blumsztajn, Bogdan Borusewicz, Zbigniew Bujak, Władysław Frasyniuk, Jarosław Kurski, Adam Michnik, Stefan Niesiołowski, Grażyna Staniszewska, Jerzy Stępień, and world-renowned actor and director Andrzej Seweryn.
In the message, shared via social media, the signatories urged the U.S. to honor the security commitments it made alongside the United Kingdom in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which assured Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons.
A group of former political prisoners condemned Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their Oval Office meeting, saying they watched it “with horror and disgust.”
They criticized Trump’s expectation of gratitude from Zelensky as “offensive,” arguing that appreciation should be directed toward Ukrainian soldiers who are “shedding blood in defense of the free world.”
Drawing a striking historical parallel, they compared the meeting’s atmosphere to interrogations by communist secret police, stating, “Prosecutors and judges, acting on behalf of an all-powerful political police, also told us they held all the cards – just like Trump did with Zelensky.”
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Source: IAR/PAP/Facebook.com/lechwalesa