Within less than a year the Communists went from controlling every aspect of Polish society, having all the parliamentary seats and all the guns, to nonexistence, with the Polish United Workers’ Party officially dissolving itself in January of 1990. By the end of 1990 Jaruzelski resigned from the presidency and officially handed the office over to Lech Walesa. The Communists never again regained a foothold on power in Poland.
