Polish state history institute probing Walesa over alleged perjury


  • World
  • Wednesday, 23 Aug 2017

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's government-affiliated history institute said on Tuesday it is investigating allegations of perjury by Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader of the Solidarity movement that helped bring down communist rule.

It was the latest twist in a long-running feud between Walesa and the ruling conservative Law and Justice party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is also a former anti-communist activist who fell out with Walesa in the 1990s.

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