Jarosław Kaczyński’s critique of Adam Michnik between 1979–1993

The article is an analysis of the polemics of Jarosław Kaczyński with Adam Michnik. The first one took place on the pages of the underground paper in 1979. Both this one and further polemics of Kaczyński and Michnik point out a clear ideological division of the “Solidarity” camp, which did not vanish during the 25 years of the existence of the Polish Third Republic. An analysis of direct polemics of Kaczyński on the Michnik texts, television debates of them both and the attacks of the “Tygodnik Solidarność” led by Jarosław Kaczyński on the editorial board of “Gazeta Wyborcza” has been made. An answer has been found to e.g. the questions: what topics were the subject of the discussion between Kaczyński and Michnik in that time? What was the evaluation of the PPR by Michnik in texts referred to by Kaczyński, and vice versa? What was the opinion of both of them towards decommunisation