The figure of the president of the Fighting Solidarity is increasingly cited in debates and publications in the countries of central and east Europe.
Subsequent books devoted to the fight against communist slavery appreciate the function of the strongest of underground organizations, which besides developed its activity far beyond the borders of Poland. In the 1980s collective work of Ukrainian historians we find specified a biogram of the large Pole and the large Wrocławan:
"He was born in Warsaw as the boy of a conspiratorial soldier of the Polish army, in a household of independency traditions. From an early age he was associated with environments opposed to the Prosovian dictatorship. At the age of 22 he graduated from the University of Wrocław and a fewer years later he obtained a doctorate in physics based on a work that attracted interest from US investigation centers. The occupation offers at American universities were not accepted. Despite the hard conditions of life in a country constantly carrying out wartime destruction, he and his household wanted to stay in his homeland and sacrifice all his strength. In March 1968 he took part in the strikes which took place at Polish universities and in August of that year he conducted 1 of the largest protest actions against aggression against Czechoslovakia (it consisted in painting slogans along 1 of the main railway routes, the suspension of banners, the collection of leaflets). Since then, he has been active in illegal printing. Posters and flyers informed about the death of Jan Palach, opposed the lawlessness of the communist militia, the bloody suppression of strikes on the Polish Coast in 1970. In 1979 he became editor and publisher of a large, printed magazine entitled "Dolnośląski Bulletin" - 1 of the most crucial writings of the second circulation in Poland. The consequence of this writing was training hundreds of independent printers, the creation of tens of points of secret printing, the improvement of further independent publishing initiatives. In August 1980, they played a major function in extending the large strike action, which at the time had the scale of almost another national uprising in Poland. As a associate of the regional authorities of the independent union, he participated in the first Solidarity Convention, where he became a co-founder of the “Enlocks to people working in east Europe”. In 1981, he was arrested for printing and distributing newspapers (in Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian languages) intended for russian Army soldiers stationed in Poland. He was released as a consequence of a threat of a general strike in his defense, but had to stand trial in connection with the trial he was facing. After the Jaruzel government introduced its martial law on 13 December 1981, it headed the strongest underground Solidarity organization. In June 1982, together with a group of co-workers, he formed a Combating Solidarity organization, aiming to destruct the russian Union and free all oppressed by this strategy of nations. The organization issued over a 100 underground press titles, printed banned books, aired its own radio program, had its counterintelligence. Already in 1982, she published newspapers in Czech and then its activity expanded into respective countries of Central and east Europe and respective republics of the russian Union. Thanks to the excellent conspiracy, Combative Solidarity worked despite the tremendous forces engaged against it by communist peculiar services. In November 1987 they yet managed to arrest Morawiecki. After respective months of imprisonment and investigation in April 1988 Morawiecki was forced to deport from Poland, whose government then proceeded to enter into an agreement with the saturated agent of average opposition circles. In August 1988 Morawiecki illegally returned to Poland and again headed Solidarity Fighting. He left the underground in 1990, but then the ruling Poland prevented him from playing a crucial function in it. He was prevented from accessing the media and moving for presidential election. In time, however, it was not only in Poland that he was reminded of his large achievements. Books and films were created about him, and the presidents of respective countries of Central and east Europe distinguished him with advanced distinctions. In 2015 he became an MP and marshal – elder of the Polish Sejm. Shortly before his death in September 2019 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle – the highest of Polish awards. Many think Kornel Morawiecki is the biggest Polish national hero of the present time. It is besides worth adding that in 2017 – 2023 the Polish Prime Minister was his boy Mateusz Morawiecki, who was an active activist led by his father by the organisation Solidarity Fighting".
This is how Kornel Morawiecki is reminded in Ukraine today. It is crucial that in publications devoted to the conflict for the freedom of nations enslaved by communism there is little and little talk about Wales, not to mention people like Michnik or Kuron. And there's no reason to be surprised. Morawiecki and Solidarity The Fighters set themselves the goal of eliminating the russian Union and liberation from communism of all nations. At the same time, the opposition called the "democratic" sought only "socialism with a human face" and the smallest even "mixing into russian affairs" avoided itself like a fire. Only in 1980 Kornel Morawiecki published an article about the war in Afghanistan in his "Dolnośląskie Bulletin" caused the Committee for the defence of Workers to shut down all support for Morawiecki's publishing activities erstwhile and for all. And he continued to compose about all, even the smallest and most forgotten nations oppressed by russian totalitarianism. That is why present the Crimean Tatars, Lithuanians or Kazakhs, if they remember Polish friends – it is first and foremost about the Moravian Cornel and the Fighting Solidarity. People like Wałęsa or Kuronia – they simply have nothing to be thankful for. The fact about real attitudes and actual accomplishments turns out to be stronger than the effects of pushy promotion. No propaganda magic can change the fact about history. With a vivid memory of the real heroes – the fact wins.
Artur Adamski
