Eugeniusz Smolar

Eugeniusz Smolar (born December 31, 1945) is a Polish journalist and member of the opposition movement during the People's Republic of Poland.

He is the brother of Aleksander Smolar who is the head of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw,[1][2] established in 1988 by American financier and philanthropist George Soros.

Under socialist Poland Smolar was a member of the opposition movement.

He was imprisoned during his university studies in 1968 and 1969 for participating in student demonstrations protesting the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[4] In 1970, Smolar emigrated from Poland to Sweden and was involved in creating and publishing a political quarterly, Aneks.