Leopold Labedz

Leopold Łabędź (22 January 1920 – 22 March 1993) was an anti-communist Anglo-Polish commentator on the Soviet Union.

The family soon returned to Warsaw and the young Łabędź decided to follow his father into the medical profession.

He left the Soviet Union in 1942 as part of the Polish Army led by General Władysław Anders.

Strongly anti-communist, Łabędź edited Survey journal and headed the London office of Committee for the Defense of Workers known by its Polish abbreviation as KOR.

Łabędź was one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's principal champions in the West and often defended the Russian writer against the charge of antisemitism.