Polish Cold War Hero Slams 'Insulting' Trump-Zelenskyy Meeting: 'We Are Shocked'
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Lech Wałęsa, who helped topple his Communist government in 1989, rebuked President Donald Trump in a letter signed by 38 other former political prisoners.
Polish Cold War hero Lech Wałęsa, who helped topple his Communist government in 1989, and dozens of former Polish political prisoners rebuked President Donald Trump on Monday for berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid Russia’s ongoing invasion.
Trump and Zelenskyy were set to sign an agreement Friday to allow U.S. access to Ukrainian rare minerals but that did not happen after a contentious televised Oval Office meeting in which Trump barked at Zelenskyy for not being “thankful” enough.
Wałęsa and 38 of his countrymen wrote in a letter on Facebook that Trump’s expectation was “insulting” and that any current gratitude should be reserved for “the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed their blood in defense of the values of the free world” — not for Trump.
“They have been dying on the frontline for more than 11 years in the name of these values and independence of their Homeland, which was attacked by [Vladimir] Putin’s Russia,” a translation of the Polish letter continued.
Wałęsa, who led a nationwide Solidarity movement at the height of the Cold War and helped topple Poland’s Communist government, added in the letter Monday: “We do not understand how the leader of a country that is the symbol of the free world cannot see it.”
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