Jaruzelski

[yah-roo-zel-skee]

noun

1. Wojciech (Witold) 1923–2014, Polish general and political leader: prime minister 1981–85; president 1989–90.

Jaruzelski

/ jaruːˈʒɛlski /

noun

1. Wojciech (ˈvɔɪtʃɛk). born 1923, Polish statesman and soldier; prime minister (1981–85); head of state 1985–90 (as president from 1989)

Example Sentences

These were not idealists building Communism; it was difficult to be an idealist under the leadership of grey nonentities like Polish Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski or East Germany’s Erich Honecker.

From Salon

Urban earned a reputation for his sarcasm and acid tongue in the early 1980s when he served as the spokesman for the government of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.

From Seattle Times

Jaruzelski’s government imposed martial law in an attempt to crush the Solidarity freedom movement of Lech Walesa.

From Seattle Times

On July 29, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the man who in 1981 had imposed martial law to crush Solidarity, resigned as Communist Party leader but remained as president.

From New York Times

Then-Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, whose 1981 imposition of martial law had led that country nowhere, opted instead to open up talks with the strikers’ leader, Lech Walesa.

From Seattle Times