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The line of defense and heroism is what the post-communists in Eastern Europe have been promoting, New York Times repeating, and Internet keyboard "intellectuals" parroting as their own original insights. Here's an "obituary" by a young Polish journalist Dawid Wildstein, whose father Bronislaw Wildstein, an intellectual and student activist during Jaruzelski's reign who suffered for his opposition (and survived, while his best friend was murdered by the secret police.) Translated by Google Translate:

I will cry, because the criminal departed unjudged. Because he died free. And I'll cry if you bury him with honors and in any place that is designed for distinguished Poles. And probably this will happen. And I'll cry if dirty authorities of the Third Republic will now defend murderers and human totalitarianism. And probably it will happen.
But I will not cry, he died as one who terrorized and intimidated its own citizens. I will not cry after the dictator who served the red totalitarian ideology as monstrous as Nazism, an ideology which murdered millions. Who was willing to enslave their own country to serve another state. I will not cry after the man who was the author of the anti-Semitic purges and commanded an army that invaded a neighboring country, there to suppress freedom with bullets and tanks.