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| Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist leader, dies aged 90 | Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist leader, dies aged 90 |
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| Poland's last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, has died at a military hospital where he was being treated after a stroke, a hospital spokesman says. He was 90. | |
| Jaruzelski died on Sunday just days before Poland marked 25 years since the crucial parliamentary election in which Poles voted against the country's communist rulers and in support of the Solidarity freedom movement that soon formed Poland's first democratic government in over four decades. | |
| Jaruzelski suffered a stroke earlier this month and was previously treated for cancer at the hospital. | |
| On 13 December 1981, Jaruzelski imposed martial law in Poland against the wishes of pro-democratic Solidarity union that grew into a nationwide movement. Solidarity eventually prevailed, ousting the communists from power in the 1989 election. | |
| Jaruzelski is survived by his wife, Barbara, and a daughter, Monika. Funeral arrangements were not immediately known. |