Michał Janiszewski Michał Janiszewski Division General Michał Janiszewski (June 15, 1926 – February 3, 2016) was a Polish officer and public official. A close aide of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, he served for a number of years as his chief of cabinet. First when Jaruzelski was Minister of Defense (1972–1981). When Jaruzelski became a Prime Minister in 1981, Janiszewski was a head of the office of the Council of Ministers under him and two next Prime Ministers - Zbigniew Messner and Mieczysław Rakowski. After Jaruzelski was elected President, Janiszewski became first chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
1981 warning strike in Poland provocation, aimed at the government of Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski. The government responded by sending to Bydgoszcz a special commission, headed by General Jozef Zyto, Deputy Prosecutor-General, whose task was to clear up the situation and find out who was guilty of the beating of the Solidarity activists. However, its members were not interested in fulfilling their task and their inactivity was criticized by Solidarity. Opposition activists were personally insulted by the Bydgoszcz events, thinking that if the beatings could happen to Jan Rulewski, they could happen to any of them. A statement of the Polish United Workers' Party did