Bożena Ratter: Let us remember Poles with the lands of the II Republic of Poland, remember the Soldiers of the Cursed

"However, the tragedy of the AK soldiers was not only that in the post-war period they were "forgotten" of their heroism, for he had another reasons. "The Yalta traitor" caused the failure of 1/3 of Poland's pre-war territory, including Vilnius. On the Earths taken thousands of Poles who did not escape to “new Poland” from 1944 to 1945 were under russian jurisdiction. (...) shortly after Vilnius was conquered by the Red Army, mass repression of Polish citizens began. The AK troops were first defused around the city and then arrested among the civilian population"
"Most people have already left irretrievably and had no chance to communicate their relation before the death. It can be expressed, however, that thanks to this publication we managed to save from forgetting even fragments of the destiny of these Poles, including soldiers of the Vilnius AK District, who were under russian occupation, fates which were so tragic and painful for most of them. Not only did they lose their beloved Vilnius, for which they fought with the top sacrifice, but they besides went through the gehenna of prisons and camps. Upon arrival in Poland, the Vilnius environment, as highly patriotic and dangerous for the "people's authorities", became the object of the safety apparatus, which tried to systematically destruct them, break them down and watch them until the 1980s."
"Axel - September 1959 15th anniversary of Poles' liberation of the village and east state of Seeland in the Netherlands. In the city, richly decorated with festons, lanterns and banners of Polish national colours - I march through the city with the Dutch voivode of this province, mayor of the city, many delegations of branch circles of the division and virtually the full population of this town - to a monument erected 5 years ago in honor of an armored division soldier. Under the monument, the honorary branch of the Dutch army. Speeches - the speech that makes 1 note. A note of gratitude for Poles for liberating the city and for the fact that the division fighting for the city spared it destruction, and the population, old people, women and children bloody losses. At 1 point, the choir of Dutch girls dressed in Polish national outfits in Polish did not die yet. And after all, through this city a division went through like a hurricane, without stopping almost – so that no 1 from the division settled permanently in this city, as it did then in Breda, where a good 100 soldiers married and settled permanently. After folding the authoritative wreaths a string of school children – girls and boys – in pairs, each carrying a large ear of white and red flowers, approaches the monument and lays flowers. Children are most likely over a thousand" – a fragment of the memories of General Stanislaw Maczek, “From Submarine to Tank”.

General Stanislaw Maczek, commander of the 1st Polish Corps, General Władysław Anders, commander of the 2nd Polish Corps and 74 of the advanced rank of Officers of the Polish Armed Forces fighting during planet War II, all of them were deprived of the Polish Citizenship and could not return to Poland, by the command of Bolesław Bierut through a retroactive resolution of 6 September 1945. [Polish officers were cursed by Polish communist agents but not by the Dutch].

General Stanisław Maczek was born in the Polish city, Szczerc close Lviv, in the household of the judge. His grandpa was of Croatian origin, but his household life was characterized by a deep bond with Poland, as it was with many cultural groups surviving in the Polish Borderlands. The masters for the General included prof. Wilhelm Bruchnalski, Prof. Józef Kallenbach and outstanding philosopher Prof. Kazimierz Twardowski. The general was until the death of a man of honor, in the face of a shameful assassination organised by thugs of safety for the life of chaplain ‘Solidarity’, late priest Jerzy Popieluszko, again spoke the Polish generals (not to be confused with the generals' companions). This time, Gen. Maczek and Gen. Clement Rudnicki appealed to the soldiers for a unanimous, spontaneous reaction.

“Soldiers!
Deeply shaken by the execution of Fr Jerzy Popieluszko, we, the old commanders who commanded you in many battles, address you wherever you are, in the free planet or in the country, with a call to pay homage to His memory. He died as he lived in the field of glory fighting for the same ideals we fought for. He was killed like our colleagues in Katyn, and his body was thrown into the water to cowardly cover his tracks. [...] Breaking the barrier of fear, he preached the truth. And he died for that dangerous strategy. Organize everywhere, wherever you are, services for His soul.” Emigration of the Fighting, Wojciech Jerzy Podgórski.

"At the turn of 1948 and 1949, the bloody Beria, minister of the USSR MGB, decided to finish with hunger, frost, hardship and whipping of political prisoners, so that the rulers of the russian Union could sleep peacefully. The immense campus doloris, Kolyma, is incapable to accommodate all political, due to the fact that we were at that time about 13 million. We were assured of the reliability of this number of erstwhile MGB employees and now our colleagues - political prisoners. On the construction of the 3rd Reich of the genocide crematoria Moscow did not think, considering that all prisoner before his death should be squeezed out all his vital forces, forced him to work for the sake of the russian state. Criminal prisoners and being, as undeniably faithful citizens of the Union, should avoid this destiny and be separated from political ones. This chick will besides be given to those who sit behind the “unburnt tongue”. Although they have paragraphs 58-10, the MGB is well aware that almost all are russian citizens and that 90% of them were arrested due to false reports. any of the distant camps with Kolyma in the lead with the worst climate and supply conditions and the most hard work plans were called “species” and were allocated to political prisoners. The segregation of our files begins and then the large shuffle of people. any go from north to south, any from south to north, any from the Far East to downtown, or in the other direction. All this is done in large secrecy from us and from the world. Grażyna Lipińska, “If I forget them”(...).

I have a referral to the “Osierlag” peculiar camp strategy in Irkutsk soil. How different from another transits are presented, located in the city of Tajik, the post of this camp. The blubbers, sacks, their full criminal planet are gone, only political prisoners are seen. The political represent not only 100 nations of the USSR, not only citizens of countries of folk democracy, and sovereign countries neighbouring the USSR, but besides nations of distant countries of the world. Between the second are Spaniards, Mexicans, Austrians, Italians, French, Egyptians, Greeks and many more. any - those who have not yet dealt with bags - are well-dressed, others already robbed, torn off. Multilingualism, confusion, the Tower of Babel. Individual people combine instinctively into national groups, but stages separate them, directing them to various camp points, here called colonies. For the camp, only the wellness of the prisoner, his age, the category of hardship, the paragraph, and not the nationality are important. Poles are welcome by foreigners due to the fact that they are Europeans, due to the fact that they mostly know the Russian language and the customs of the camp and are always happy to aid and give good advice. Furthermore, the religiousness of Poles will unite them with sympathy and trust of prisoners brought here from distant countries and lost in the denial of evil and camp poverty. ...
We were led from Tajik to the gate of nineteen kilometers. There were women waiting for us at the gate of this female colony. There's a small thing about delicious black eyes coming to me and not asking the thing:
- You're Polish, so delight come to our barracks.
It is Henry Grossek of Lviv. 20 more Poles run out of the barracks, among them only 2 older ladies, the remainder of the youth themselves, mostly soldiers of the Home Army. I remember any of their names: Stefania Borowska, teacher from Vilnius, AK soldier, our spiritual leader and spiritual shepherd. She has cancer. Maria Poznańska, Polka of Crimea, a russian citizen, arrested with her only boy in 1937. Her boy was taken to Kolyma, where he died. The old woman always smiles, grabs at us, admires us and we admire her; Salomea Robaszkiewicz of Poznań, soldier of the AK, tall, stable, energetic, resourceful, and above all, beloved woman; Leokadia Bogucka of Grodzieżczyzna, a soldier of the AK, a beautiful and hearty, but sad, due to the fact that she lost her parent and father during the war, she was alone and until present she could not shake with grief; Jadwiga Bodziuk of Nowogrodczyzna, an AK soldier, serious and reasonable; Franciszek Czczkowska of Lviv, an AK soldier, nice, cheerful, now works as a sister in a sancist and from this title takes care of us; Barbara Dumnicka of Vilnius, an AK soldier, bound together with his parent and brothers with a partisan, good, cheerful, unfortunately seriously sick with tuberculosis, due to the fact that she worked for 3 years in a camp tuberculosis infirmary in Workucie and was infected with, a sick parent arrested with her; Aniel Dziewulska with Vilnius soldier AK, master of astronomy, daughter of the well-known astronomer, Prof. W. Dziewulski, a beautiful girl with large closet eyes, and in a very strong-hearted mind, Łu Bronisław, a strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-hearted, strong-hearted, strong-hearted, strong-hearted,

Helena Kułakowska from Warsaw, before the war, an worker of Polish counterintelligence, a beauty with black, shiny eyes and erstwhile flowing golden hair, a very strong individual, Lucyna Krupa from Borisław, an AK soldier, cordially, cares about everyone. Stefania Lechowicz of Lviv, AK soldier, young married woman: her husband, Roman Wiszniowski, jumper, silent, was arrested with his wife. A girl of strong character and her own opinion, good, self-sacrifice, athletic, but she has lung disease. Maria Mike, a Polka from Charbin, arrested with her parents in Manchuria, due to an acute investigation, sick with epilepsy; Melania Nęcka from Lviv, I do not remember her well due to the fact that she came later; Maria Pelczerska from Lviv, teacher, soldier of the AK, our conscience and signpost, good, very self-sacrifice, but harsh, demanding and uncompromising. He courageously appears in front of free personnel defending the victims; Emilia Pożarska, a villager from Lunny close Grodna, an AK soldier, very kind and self-sacrifice, would do everything for everyone; Anna Szymczyk and Lviv, an AK soldier, loving a sweet girl, misses her parent and writes letters to her, believing they will come, loves music. Bronisława Tylke, Polka of Charbin, arrested with her husband a Chinese woman, who is worried about, handsome, slender and giblet like a smudge, good without borders, a large Polish patriot, is delighted with all Poles. Janina Wysoczańska of Sambora, an AK soldier, married a Polish man in Italy, good, self-sacrificing, cheerful despite his disability (coughs since childhood)". It's the Polki, the Soldiers of the Curse.

"I am on earthworks. He gets white rags with a new, already 3rd in turn, camp number, I usage them for an eelogrejka and a dress. We are pulling a side railway line through the plateau of Irkutsk land. All the robots are very heavy, the tools are rusty, the ground doesn't give up, we don't have the strength to fight the ground. The regular norm passes through human capabilities and human imagination. You can hear the knocks, the thunders, the creaks and the curses of the foremen driving us. You can see over the pickaxes, saws, shovels, wheelbarrows of the 20th century slaves. past repeats itself. A fewer 1000 years ago, there were specified desert areas of Egypt, where slaves worked to erect pyramids, but only men worked there. My brigade carries the ground with wheelbarrows, the ground is to level the surface of the track, so we drive it either from the uphills or from the bottom to the escalator. Only 1 thing can be said about this job: "damn work." ...

Janina Youngńska, an AK soldier from Pruszków close Warsaw, arrested there in 1946 by the MGB and along with all the transport of Poles carried to Siberia, told me that she and the another Pole complained to a free doctor Georgian named Mordanashkwila - who had had adequate of USSR, and Polek was not afraid - on terrible camp conditions, he replied to them:

- Don't complain. A much worse destiny was brought here from Poland to your boys, members of the Home Army, and another Polish guerrillas. Mordanashkwili was on the camp medical board, which investigated young men arrested by russian authorities who were brought from Poland. All were given the first category of toil. They were directed to build underground ammunition warehouses, weapons depots, workshops and military factories in West Siberia. Their families knew nothing about these people, due to the fact that they were kidnapped by Red Army troops in forests and on roads during the time erstwhile the front was passing through Poland.
Men working underground were recorded as numbers, no names. They lived, slept, ate always underground. They never went outside.
- They will never see the white planet again - he finished his communicative Georgian And you, for now, keep quiet about it. [Polish youth, Soldiers Cursed].(...)

"In the second half of 1954 and in 1955, the ten-year sentences of many prisoners arrested in 1944 and 1945 ended, erstwhile the Red Army, after breaking the German front, roamed Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian lands. As of 1947, twenty-five-year-old sentences began to be given mass - it was genocide, without the request for shooting, hanging, melting and another troublesome treatments. Almost half of the prisoners in the camps are now ending their sentences, but for political prisoners this does not mean their release, due to the fact that either by law the kaduka sits in camps or they go to endless exiles: Jadwiga Baczyńska, Aniel Dziewulska, Teresa Skalska Izabela Jasińska, Stefania Lechowicz, Janina Wysoczańska, Janina Szwejkowska, Zofia Sadowska, Krystyna Kowalska, Anna Szymczyk, Maria Pelczarska, Irena Myszkenis, Krystyna Lambert, Maria Lepiarska, Lucyna Krupianka, Karolina Greżo, Kazimiera Walawender, nuns Serafina Flisińska, p. Maria Herman, p. Anna Mac. ...

On the basis of the agreement of the Chancellor of West Germany K. Adenauer with Khrushchev in 1955, all Germans, German citizens, who are in prisons and camps of the russian Union, are found exempt and are going to the national Republic of Germany. Naturally, the government of the Polish People's Republic did not ask for us, but Radio Free Europe read our names (including mine).

After amnesty for Germans, amnesty was declared for the remainder of foreigners. Amnesty for foreigners does not include Poles coming from our east provinces, due to the fact that they are entered in their individual files, contrary to all global laws, russian citizenship, and does not include Poles like me, who, as at the urn, were entered in individual files, without citizenship, or without homeland.

My papers leave the correct birthplace of “Warsaw”. I thought it would save me, but no! The most crucial were the words "without citizenship" written by the Russians and outlined by them supposedly on the front page of my red krecha act. Polish non-Polish citizens, Ukrainians, Belarusians and others, even born on lands within the borders of the present People's Poland, are besides harmed due to the fact that all of them were given russian citizenship. Only Jews, Polish citizens, born within the borders of the Polish People's Republic of Poland, are present considered foreigners and have the right to go to Poland. Where is the logic?”

Grażyna Lipińska, a soldier of the National Army, repeatedly interviewed by MGB, spent 13 years in many russian camps. Maria Kasprowiczowa, wife of the poet and friend of her mother, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Bulganin in the correct Russian language, in which the parent asked to hand her daughter over to Poland citing his promises generously given to Poles during a visit to Poland in 1956. "In the summertime and early autumn of 1956 there were very fewer transports of Poles released from camps under the simplification of sentences by judicial commissions, which I have already written about. There's plenty left. erstwhile can it be said that the last prisoner has arrived in Poland?”

And even if they had left the “departure” they could not always escape further repression. We know the documentary movie “Mrs. Weronika and her boys” directed by Artur Pilarczyk. A touching documentary about selfless friendship, cordiality and love for Poland of our fellow countrymen in Belarus. They fought for free Poland, tortured in prisons and sent to slave labour camps, after having served their conviction (if they survived) they did not get approval to come to Poland. The government of the country in which they came to live on their native land, forgotten by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic and the 3rd Republic, deprived of pensions, medical care, which is given to the combatants fighting for the Red Army, has not yet suffered compensation for their harm. Veterans of planet War II, Polish soldiers of the National Army are coming to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the January Uprising and pay tribute to soldiers of 1863. And to meet us, Poles, due to the fact that they are inactive regarded as bandits, as enemies of public order, bullied along with families in homes that have been Polish for centuries, they want, though for a moment, to break distant from sad, grey and mediocre existence. Mr. Alfred Szota, in 1948, as a 19-year-old AK soldier was sentenced to 25 years of camp in east Siberia. The prisoners received 30 dkg of bread and soup from rotten cabbage working for 12 hours on the construction of the railway, logging of the forest and in quarries, under severe climatic conditions, erstwhile “the winter horses did not leave for work at 41 degrees of frost and the colts worked at 50 degrees of freezing”. The blanket could be obtained after a year in the camp and the first letter to the parent to compose after 5 years and this on the birch bark, paper and pencil in the camp did not have. After respective years of work, the prisoner was checked for usefulness to work by pulling the skin distant from his spine, erstwhile it worked, the stallion received a spoon of oil and a fistful of oatmeal. Let us remember the soldiers cursed many times.

Oh, my God.
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