Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

It was a stupid political act ... today I deeply regret it but at the time I could not act otherwise. It was a political decision,

It was a stupid political act,

But, in 1968, I was the defense minister implementing a political decision, convinced that there were grounds for that on the basis of the information available to us then.