Aram

Aram is the pseudonym of Arkadiusz Rybicki politician social activist MP On April 10 2010 he died in Smolensk on his way to the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre He was 57 at the time 40 years earlier in the Gdańsk Shipyard he made the inscription We will not forget Katyn Already at the age of seventeen he started opposition activities From 1979 he was associated with the Young Poland Movement he edited the Bratniak magazine In August 1980 he collaborated with the striking workers of the Coast wrote down 21 demands of the InterEnterprise Strike Committee After that memorable August he became involved in the activities of the Solidarity Trade Union He was interned during martial law In the second half of the 1980s he started working in the secretariat of Lech Wałęsa in the late 1990s he became deputy minister of culture and then a member of the Sejm on behalf of the Civic Platform