Former Polish President Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa has lost his final appeal in a lawsuit against historian S\u0142awomir Cenckiewicz regarding book citations concerning his youth and historical disputes. <\/p>\n
Former Polish president Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa alleged in 2019 that historian S\u0142awomir Cenckiewicz unlawfully quoted contents from two publications in his book “Wa\u0142\u0119sa. Cz\u0142owiek z teczki”. The publications in question referenced the former president’s youth.<\/p>\n
The dispute involved Roger Boyes’ book “Nagi prezydent. \u017bycie polityczne Lecha Wa\u0142\u0119sy” and Pawe\u0142 Zyzak’s “Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa. Idea i historia. Biografia polityczna legendarnego przyw\u00f3dcy Solidarno\u015bci do 1988 roku”, which contained descriptions of Wa\u0142\u0119sa and his siblings removing fence pickets for fights and engaging in violent altercations.<\/p>\n
In March 2023, the Regional Court in Warsaw dismissed the former president’s lawsuit, and the Appellate Court subsequently dismissed his appeal.<\/p>\n
S\u0142awomir Cenckiewicz stated on the platform X that the lawsuit he won was both “absurd and dangerous,” noting that it effectively targeted a historian’s right to quote documents and findings by other researchers. He added that Wa\u0142\u0119sa had tolerated similar stories for years until he cited them.<\/p>\n
Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa responded on social media, telling Cenckiewicz that the truth must prevail and claiming that the court victories belonged to the communist secret police (SB) based on fabricated evidence exposed by IPN interrogations.<\/p>\n
The former president emphasized his role in ending communism and pulling Poland from the Soviet sphere through his leadership from December 1970 through August 1980, stating that these historic achievements motivated the attacks against him.<\/p>\n
S\u0142awomir Cenckiewicz wrote in his 2008 book “SB a Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa. Przyczynek do biografii” that the former president was registered as a secret collaborator of the Security Service under the codename “Bolek” in 1970.<\/p>\n
Wa\u0142\u0119sa explained that he led the strike in the Gda\u0144sk Shipyard in December 1970, quickly recognized the limitations for a successful outcome, and decided to analyze the situation to prepare future forms of resistance against the opponent and the SB.<\/p>\n
The former president maintained that he was recognized as a lifelong enemy of communism and was never offered actual agent cooperation. Instead, he claimed authorities created the “Bolek” file to discredit him and bring him to trial using handwriting samples gathered from personal applications, CVs, court appeals, and workplace documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Polish President Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa has lost his final appeal in a lawsuit against historian S\u0142awomir Cenckiewicz regarding book citations concerning his youth and historical disputes. Court Battle Over Citations Former Polish president Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa alleged in 2019 that historian S\u0142awomir Cenckiewicz unlawfully quoted contents from two publications in his book “Wa\u0142\u0119sa. Cz\u0142owiek z teczki”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}