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 Inter-Enterprise 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.

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