Saturday, March 2, 2013

This week Poland remembers it's heroes killed by communist regime

This week Poland remembers it's 'Damned Soldiers', heroes who fought against German invaders, and then occupiers, first as a soldiers and then as members of underground only to be branded as bandits or traitors by the communist regime after the war ended. Most of them to survive re-joined resistance movements and fought well into 1950s. Their guerrilla warfare included an array of military attacks launched against the new communist prisons, state security offices, detention facilities for political prisoners, and concentration camps (yes, communists had those too) set up across the country. Most of the Polish anti-communist groups ceased to exist in the late 1940s or 1950s, hunted down by MBP security services and NKVD assassination squads. Burial ground of some of them are still being found even now.

Nazi uniforms a final insult for Poland’s heroes