Editing Wojciech Jaruzelski (section)

== Death ==
Jaruzelski died on 25 May 2014, in a Warsaw hospital after suffering a stroke earlier that month.<sup>[33][34]</sup> Prior to his death, he reportedly requested last rites by a Catholic priest.<sup>[35][36]</sup> President Bronisław Komorowski
<nowiki> </nowiki>and former Presidents Lech Wałęsa and Aleksander Kwaśniewski as well as
<nowiki> </nowiki>hundreds of other Poles attended his funeral mass at the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army
<nowiki> </nowiki>in Warsaw on 30 May. Wałęsa and Komorowski, who were among the 
thousands imprisoned during the crackdown on Solidarity in 1981, both stated that judgment against Jaruzelski "would be left to God".Jaruzelski was then cremated and buried with full military honours at Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw, near the grave of Bolesław Bierut, the first Communist leader of Poland after World War II. The decision to bury Jaruzelski at Powązki, the resting place of Polish soldiers killed defending their country since the early 19th century, resulted in protests.