Lech Walesa, the chief of Poland’s Solidarity motion, which helped finish Moscow’s grip on Jap Europe on the finish of the Chilly Warfare, joined with former Polish political prisoners on Monday to ship an impassioned letter to President Trump voicing “horror and disgust” at his scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine final week, saying it reminded them of their encounters with bullying Communist-era officers.
They wrote in Polish that they had been “terrified by the truth that the environment within the Oval Workplace throughout this dialog reminded us of the one we bear in mind properly from interrogations by the Safety Service and from courtrooms in Communist courts.”
“Prosecutors and judges, commissioned by the omnipotent communist political police, additionally defined to us that they held all of the playing cards and we had none,” the letter stated, a reference to President Trump’s Oval Workplace rebuke to Mr. Zelensky that “you don’t have the playing cards.”
Communist functionaries, the letter continued, “demanded that we cease our actions, arguing that hundreds of harmless folks had been struggling due to us.” When President Zelensky insisted within the Oval Workplace on Friday that safety ensures had been wanted to make any peace take care of Russia final, Mr. Trump slapped him down, saying, “You’re playing with the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals.”
The letter — signed by Mr. Walesa, the Eighties chief of the Solidarity commerce union, and greater than 30 outstanding former Polish political detainees — was posted on Mr. Walesa’s Facebook page, together with a generally imprecise English translation and an previous {photograph} of him assembly with a grinning, tuxedo-clad Mr. Trump.
It expressed offended disbelief that Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance had berated Mr. Zelensky for not thanking them sufficient for serving to Ukraine.
