Albin Siwak

Albin Siwak (January 27, 1933 – April 4, 2019[1]) was a Polish politician, construction worker and a social activist, who acted as a government sponsored antagonist of opposition leader Lech Wałęsa during the 1980s.

After his career in the People's Republic, Siwak held nationalist and anti-semitic views, arguing that Solidarity had been a Jewish conspiracy.

[8] He was delegate for the VIII, IX and X Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party.

From July 1981 was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party.

[11] Siwak wrote nomerous autobiographic books after retirement, reflecting on his personal journey from mason to diplomat, his political conversion from communist and atheist to nationalist and Catholic, expatiating the socio-political changes in Poland during his lifetime.

[13] Towards the end of his life, he aligned with the radical panslavic movement and engaged in bogus archeology.