Is the spouse of the primary chairman “Solidarity” does she should obtain the standing of an anti-communist opposition activist? Earlier head of the Workplace for Veterans and Victims of Oppression Jan Józef Kasprzyk from PiS assessed the applying negatively twice Danuta Wałęsa on this matter, which many former opposition activists thought-about scandalous.
He issued a optimistic determination on Friday, June 7 Lech Parelthe present president of the workplace.
– Anybody who would have any doubts on this matter ought to learn the next justification – he wrote Lech Parel on social media. – I want to guarantee everybody that no political sympathies or antipathies will ever affect the selections made by the Workplace I head. The choice was made primarily based on a repeated utility by Ms. Danuta Wałęsa.
Leaflets, demonstrations, Nobel Prize
Within the justification of the choice, amongst others: we learn:
“The proof collected within the case exhibits that Ms. Danuta Wałęsa has been conducting opposition actions at the very least since 1978 inside the which means of Artwork. 2 of the Act on anti-communist opposition activists. In line with her personal and witnesses’ statements, she acquired and transferred, amongst others, free-of-charge press (“Robotnik”, “Biuletyn Informacyjny” and “Głos”), leaflets and books from the “Łączy” publishing home. She participated in patriotic occasions as an alternative choice to her husband, who was detained by the police. For instance, on March 25, 1980, she took half within the funeral of Tadeusz Szczepański, who died in unexplained circumstances, the place she introduced and laid a funeral wreath. She knowledgeable in regards to the detention of her partner, Lech Wałęsa, and different activists. After the introduction of martial legislation and through the internment of Mr. Lech Wałęsa, she turned his spokesman. She appeared in public, maintained contacts, offered data to Western journalists, presenting the place of the chairman of “Solidarity”.
In addition they recalled the joint demonstration with Lech Wałęsa after his launch from internment on November 14, 1982, and the demonstrative naming of his daughter Wiktoria throughout baptism by the Solidarity chaplain, Fr. Henryk Jankowski, and Danuta Wałęsa’s illustration of the Polish anti-communist opposition whereas receiving, on behalf of her husband, the Nobel Prize on December 10, 1983.
What does the standing of an opposition activist imply?
Individuals with a confirmed standing of an anti-communist opposition activist or an individual repressed for political causes are entitled to obtain a money profit within the quantity of the minimal pension and the suitable to profit from monetary help granted by Head of the Workplace for Veterans and Victims of Oppression. They’ll additionally use well being care and neighborhood social care out of flip, together with acquiring a spot in a nursing dwelling.
