Wojciech Jaruzelski suffered a stroke earlier this month, (Frances Mori/ Associated Press)
Poland's last communist leader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, has died at a military hospital where was being treated after a stroke, a hospital spokesman said. He was 90.
Jaruzelski died Sunday just days before Poland marked 25 years since the crucial parliamentary election in which Poles voted against the country's communist rulers and in support of the Solidarity freedom movement that soon formed Poland's first democratic government in over four decades.
Hospital spokesman Grzegorz Kade told The Associated Press that Jaruzelski had died. Jaruzelski suffered a stroke earlier this month and was previously treated for cancer at the hospital.
On Dec. 13, 1981, Jaruzelski imposed martial law in Poland against the wishes of pro-democratic Solidarity union that grew into a nationwide movement. Solidarity eventually prevailed, ousting the communists from power in the 1989 election.
Jaruzelski is survived by his wife Barbara and a daughter Monika.
Funeral arrangements were not immediately known.
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