Workers' Defence Committee
He is the son of writer and journalist Olgierd Terlecki who was a secret collaborator of the Security Service in PRL for 35 years, and his wife Janina. In his youth, he was a participant in the hippie movement and one of the precursors of this youth subculture in Poland. He was known in the environment under the pseudonym "Pies" (pol. "Dog"). Then he took part in opposition movements - as a co-worker of Workers' Defence Committee, member of "Solidarity" independent trade union, and journalist in underground press. He was married twice, and has three children from his first marriage.