Editing Wojciech Jaruzelski (section)

== After retirement ==
In October 1994, while attending a book-selling activity in Wroclaw,
<nowiki> </nowiki>Jaruzelski was attacked by a male pensioner with a stone and had his jaw injured, after which he was sent to a hospital to receive surgery. The man had been arrested in prison during the martial law period. Later, the man was sentenced two years and fined 200 zloty.

In an interview in 2001, Jaruzelski said that he believed Communism failed, and that he was now a social democrat. He also announced his support for then-President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, as well as future Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Both Kwaśniewski and Miller were members of the Democratic Left Alliance, the social democratic party that includes most of the remains of the PUWP.

In May 2005, Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]]
<nowiki> </nowiki>awarded a medal commemorating the 60th anniversary of victory over Nazi
<nowiki> </nowiki>Germany to Jaruzelski and other former leaders, such as former Romanian King Michael I.<sup>[27]</sup> Czech President Václav Klaus criticised this step, claiming that Jaruzelski was a symbol of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
<nowiki> </nowiki>in 1968. Jaruzelski said that he had apologised and that the decision 
on the August 1968 invasion had been a great "political and moral mistake".

On 28 March 2006, Jaruzelski was awarded a Siberian Exiles Cross by Polish President Lech Kaczyński.
<nowiki> </nowiki>However, after making this fact public Kaczyński claimed that this was a
<nowiki> </nowiki>mistake and blamed the bureaucracy for giving him a document containing
<nowiki> </nowiki>1293 names without notifying him of Jaruzelski's presence within it. 
After this statement, Jaruzelski returned the cross.

On 31 March 2006, the IPN charged Jaruzelski with committing Communist crimes,
<nowiki> </nowiki>mainly the creation of a criminal military organisation with the aim of
<nowiki> </nowiki>carrying out criminal acts — mostly concerned with the illegal 
imprisonment of people. A second charge involved inciting state 
ministers to commit acts beyond their competence.<sup>[30]</sup> Jaruzelski evaded most court appearances citing poor health. In December 2010, Jaruzelski suffered from severe pneumonia,<sup>[31]</sup> and in March 2011, he was diagnosed with lymphoma.