Today, Professor Sławomir Cenckiewicz published the following post on X (translated and shortened):
Ladies and Gentlemen!
The truth has triumphed, the lie has lost!
On May 14, 2025, I legally won the lawsuit for the protection of personal rights that I filed against Mr. Lech Wałęsa.
It was a lengthy trial, almost six years long. During it, Lech Wałęsa repeatedly called me names and even threatened to hang me or put me in prison.
According to the final judgment of the Court of Appeal in Warsaw:
First, Lech Wałęsa was ordered by the Court to stop publicly expressing or publishing information that would indicate that I had falsified documents concerning a secret collaborator of the PRL Security Service with the pseudonym "Bolek", which were at the disposal of the Institute of National Remembrance.
Second, Lech Wałęsa was ordered by the Court to publish a statement from which it would appear that he apologizes for disseminating false information that violates my good name, that I had falsified documents concerning a secret collaborator with the pseudonym "Bolek."
The Court ordered Mr. Lech Wałęsa to also include a statement that it was being published as a result of the trial that Mr. Lech Wałęsa lost. The above statement is to be published by Lech Wałęsa for one month, via accounts run by him on the most popular social media (Facebook and X).
Third, Lech Wałęsa was ordered by the Court to pay PLN 30,000.00 to the social purpose indicated by me (O. Damian de Veuster Foundation). Payment is to be made within 14 days from the date of the judgment.
During one of the hearings, Wałęsa threatened Cenckiewicz in the courtroom that he would be hanged. That was after Donald Tusk and his party returned to power, and Wałęsa thought that they would be able to make him untouchable again.
In his post, Cenckiewicz thanked all who supported him and called out other historians for their "deafening silence," so eager to collectively defend freedom of speech, the profession of historian, and scientific independence.
PN: For years, I defended Wałęsa for his role in defeating communism. Boy, I was so wrong. By being a paid informant, he not only prolonged our fight for freedom, but he is also responsible for the remnants of the regime still hiding in the halls of government and mainstream media.
