ABSTRACT
Zbigniew Bujak was born in November 1954, the youngest of a large peasant family that farmed at Lopuszno near Kielce. Zbigniew Bujak was like many other Solidarity activists annoyed with himself in the first few days and weeks after General Jaruzelski introduced martial law because he thought that he should have anticipated it. He escaped arrest as did his friend, Zbigniew Janas. Both men had gone for a meal after the Solidarity Congress ended on the night of 12 December in Gdansk. In the meantime Bujak and the rest hoped that by stimulating a wide range of activities that they were helping to prepare people for a time when they would really live in a ‘civil society’. Zbigniew Bujak looked after all the contacts with the former Solidarity branches which were than clandestine. Zbigniew Bujak is highly critical of all of the post-communist governments.
