{"id":1553,"date":"2025-03-03T03:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:23:55","slug":"solidarity-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/de\/2025\/03\/03\/solidarity-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity Movement Published an Open Letter to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Polish President and leader of the Solidarity movement, Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa,\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0an open letter to US President Donald Trump\u00a0signed<\/a>\u00a0by 39 other former Polish political prisoners. “Dear Mr President, We watched the report of your conversation with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy with horror and distaste. We consider your expectations regarding showing respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States to Ukraine fighting against Russia to be offensive. Gratitude is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defence of the values of the free world. They are the ones who have been dying on the front lines for over 11 years in the name of these values and the independence of their homeland attacked by Putin’s Russia. We do not understand how the leader of a country that is a symbol of the free world can not see this. We were also horrified by the fact that the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation reminded us of the one we remember well from interrogations by the Security Service and courtrooms in communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, commissioned by the all-powerful communist political police, also explained to us that they held all the cards and we held none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people were suffering because of us. They deprived us of our freedom and civil rights because we refused to cooperate with the authorities and did not show them gratitude. We are shocked that you treated President Volodymyr Zelensky in a similar way”.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Polish President Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa and 39 ex-political prisoners condemned Donald Trump\u2019s treatment of Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky, calling his remarks offensive and reminiscent of communist-era interrogations, and praising Ukraine\u2019s soldiers for defending freedom.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,6],"tags":[675,677,674,678,676,682],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine","category-war","category-world","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-zelensky","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nSolidarity Movement Published an Open Letter to Trump - Kyiv Center for Defense Policy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/de\/2025\/03\/03\/solidarity-movement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solidarity Movement Published an Open Letter to Trump - 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