Waldemar Andrzej Fydrych[1] "Major" (born April 8, 1953) is a Polish activist and founding leader of the Orange Alternative movement in Poland.

In March 1988, after distributing women's sanitary pads on the street (an item that was in severe shortage in Communist Poland), Fydrych was arrested and sentenced by the Court of Justice to three months of imprisonment.

[2] During the communist regime, when Fydrych was called upon to fulfill his military service obligation, he appeared before the army commission dressed in a uniform of a major.

Asked to use an appropriate tone in regard to his superiors, Fydrych began addressing his interlocutors per "colonel," at the same time describing himself as a "major," a nickname which remained with him ever since.

On the night of the "Orange Victory", the 15-meter long scarf was handed by Lyzhichko to President Yushchenko as one of the main symbols of the brotherhood between Ukraine and Poland.