Kremlin May Be Fueling Pro-Walesa Protests, Polish Official Says
- Protests could be `hybrid warfare' strategy, Zybertowicz says
- Presidential adviser calls Walesa informant and snitch
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Anti-government protests in support of former President Lech Walesa could be part of a clandestine attempt by Russia to destabilize Poland, an adviser to President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands Poles took to the streets across the country last weekend to demonstrate against what they said is a smear campaign by the ruling Law & Justice against the icon of the country’s switch to democracy in 1989. Documents recovered by a government agency last week, which Walesa says are forged, show the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was a paid secret informant in the 1970s before he led the Solidarity union uprising against the communist regime.