Wałęsa’s sons argued about their father on “Dzień Dobry TVN”. Bitter words were spoken
- In “Dzień Dobry TVN”, the sons of the “Solidarity” legend talked about their childhood memories
- While Jarosław Wałęsa is understanding of the times when his father was an active politician, Bogdan Wałęsa is a bit more critical.
- – He was there when he could, but there was definitely not enough of him for us to have a full father and mother – emphasized the eldest son of Danuta and Lech Wałęsa
- The guests of the TVN program also admitted that it was not only the relationship with his father that was neglected. “There are eight of us, but each of us is an only child,” they said
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Lech Walesa He and his wife Danuta had eight children. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the former president of Poland answered about the difficult times of fighting for a new Poland in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as about his private life. The conversation with Onet journalists Kamil Dziubka and Janusz Schwertner was recorded in the book “Wałęsa ’80”, which was a pretext for a conversation with Lech Wałęsa’s children in “Good morning TVN“It turns out that the politician’s oldest son has a slightly different idea of his father than his younger brother.
Wałęsa’s sons argued about their father on “Dzień Dobry TVN”. Bitter words were spoken
When asked by the hosts what kind of father Lech Wałęsa was years ago, Bogdan Wałęsa replied: – When he was like that, he was obviously a demanding, strict follower of his mother’s orders. Punish, educate. How he was, because generally he wasn’t there. My mother replaced him as best she could.
Then Jarosław Wałęsa joined the conversation. — I envy Bogdan because he is older than me. In 1980 he was already 10 years old, so he had a father for 10 years. I had the leader of “Solidarity” as a 4-year-old, he said. The MP’s older brother quickly reacted to these words.
– he emphasized.
The family of Danuta and Lech Wałęsa
Jarosław Wałęsa tried to defend his father. — Only now do I realize how abnormal this situation was for small children. I don’t have any other father figure, it was normal for me. (…) There weren’t many moments together, they could be counted on the fingers of one hand, but when he was with us, he was great.. He was as sensitive as he could be, he said.
– Bogdan Wałęsa continued.
The president of the “Lech Wałęsa Institute” Foundation added that in his professional life he felt the negative effects of being the son of the former president. — For the last eight years, when I worked in the services, in the Internal Security Agency, I received terrible beatings. When I went to my director to find out why something happened and to assure him that I could improve something, I was told “I don’t have to explain myself to you.” It was a cut right at the ground, he revealed.
Currently, Bohdan Wałęsa works closer with his father. Thanks to this, he makes up for the time lost in childhood. — I asked him recently: “Father, where were you when I needed you?” He says “you don’t know how to be strong”, “you don’t know how to win”, and who was supposed to teach us this? he said bitterly.
However, Lech Wałęsa’s younger son did not give up. — Father taught us all a great lesson. I don’t know about you, but he never told me “do this”, “do that”, “do this or that”. He said: “whatever you do, you have to believe in yourself and what you are doing,” he said.
Bogdan Wałęsa also drew attention to the relationships in the Wałęsa family. — There are eight of us, but each of us is an only child. Only now are we trying to repair it and build it, because we have serious shortcomings. We are siblings, but we are almost strangers – he confessed.
Finally, the sons of the Solidarity legend were asked whether they could forgive their father for devoting himself to politics instead of spending time with them. — My father achieved an amazing thing. I have a national hero for a father and I am grateful to him for living in a free country – replied Jarosław Wałęsa firmly.
– Bogdan Wałęsa summed up.
Bogdan Wałęsa and Jarosław Wałęsa in “Good morning TVN”
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