THE POLISH CRISIS AND THE CONFERENCE OF LEADERS’ PARTIES AND STATES OF THE WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION (MOSCOW, 4 – 5 DECEMBER 1980)
THE POLISH CRISIS AND THE CONFERENCE OF LEADERS’ PARTIES AND STATES OF THE WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION (MOSCOW, 4 – 5 DECEMBER 1980)

Summary/Abstract: The exponential development of the “Solidarity” trade union and thepermanent hesitations of Warsaw authorities, who avoided to enforce themartial law and to intervene in force for the repressing of popular movements inthe entire country, determined the leaders of WTO’s states to meet at Moscow(4-5 December 1980) for convincing Stanislaw Kania to utilize harder means tore-establish the order in Poland. The respective reunion started on December 4, 1980 without theparticipation of the leader of the Polish communist party, only one day afterMarshal Viktor G. Kulikov solicited the agreement of General WojciechJaruzelski to start in Poland the common military manoeuvres “SOIUZ-80”.During the second session (December 5, 1980), Stanislaw Kania was the firstwho presented some point of view regarding the events from Poland. At thefinal of his speech, the Polish communist leader committed himself to annihilate,helped by the party he led, “the contra revolutionary activity” on the whole hiscountry and declared he was disposed to put in practice other measures, too,besides the political ones (this practically being a veiled allusion to theintroduction of martial law). The reunion in Moscow continued with thespeeches of Todor Zhivkov, Gustav Husak, Erich Honecker, NicolaeCeauşescu, Janos Kadar and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.

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