Wojciech Jaruzelski and his mother were sent on a month-long journey to Biysk in Altai Krai after the Red Army captured them. He worked cleaning forests under forced labor conditions while his father died on the 4th of June 1942 from dysentery.
Wojciech Jaruzelski proclaimed martial law across Poland on the 13th of December 1981. The curfew and travel restrictions lasted until the 22nd of July 1983 when they were suspended.
Nine people died at Wujek where ZOMO units opened fire on demonstrators following a shoot-to-kill order issued under Wojciech Jaruzelski. Estimates place the total number of deaths during martial law at ninety-one.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki became the first non-Communist prime minister of an Eastern Bloc country in four decades after Wojciech Jaruzelski resigned as first secretary of the Polish United Workers Party on the 29th of July 1989.
The Institute of National Remembrance charged Wojciech Jaruzelski with communist crimes on the 31st of March 2006 for creating a criminal military organization for illegal imprisonment. He evaded most court appearances citing poor health before his death.