Post by Bonobo on Jul 28, 2011 9:34:15 GMT 1
The most known is the latest one - from 1945 to 1989, with communist Poles with their henchmen on one side and those who opposed the communist system and regime on the other.
It started in 1945:
Polish anti-Communist civil war
The situation in Poland in the immediate aftermath of World War II has been described as an all-out civil war,[9] or near civil war by many historians,[10] as members of the independence movement carried out numerous attacks on both Soviet and Polish communist offices and institutions. In return, the Stalinist authorities carried out brutal pacification of civilians, mass arrests (see: Augustów chase 1945), deportations, as well as executions (see: Mokotów Prison murder, Public execution in Dêbica) and many secret assassinations.[9]
The anticommunist movement responded with attacks on NKVD and Urzad Bezpieczenstwa camps, such as the Attack on the NKVD Camp in Rembertów. The underground units often engaged in regular battles with the Soviets and their Polish clients (see: Battle of Kury³ówka). Those who fought the communists, were relentlessly hunted down. The fight was brutal, and the units loyal to the Polish government-in-exile did not hesitate to attack even large cities, to free their fellow soldiers kept in various prisons and detention camps across Poland.
List of attacks on Stalinist prisons, camps and state security offices
In 2007, the Institute of National Remembrance Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN), published the Atlas of the Independence Underground in Poland 1944–1956, listing scores of armed attacks on communist prisons after World War II, in which hundreds of political prisoners were freed. The most daring assaults were conducted before October 1946.
read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist_resistance_in_Poland_%281944%E2%80%931946%29
So, one one side, patriotic partisans who rejected the new totalitarian system
and Polish communist police, called MO, or Polish People`s Army.
Here, captured by the partisans
podziemiezbrojne.blox.pl/2006/03/Dzialalnosc-V-i-VI-Brygady-Wilenskiej-AK-1944.html
www.doomedsoldiers.com/
It started in 1945:
Polish anti-Communist civil war
The situation in Poland in the immediate aftermath of World War II has been described as an all-out civil war,[9] or near civil war by many historians,[10] as members of the independence movement carried out numerous attacks on both Soviet and Polish communist offices and institutions. In return, the Stalinist authorities carried out brutal pacification of civilians, mass arrests (see: Augustów chase 1945), deportations, as well as executions (see: Mokotów Prison murder, Public execution in Dêbica) and many secret assassinations.[9]
The anticommunist movement responded with attacks on NKVD and Urzad Bezpieczenstwa camps, such as the Attack on the NKVD Camp in Rembertów. The underground units often engaged in regular battles with the Soviets and their Polish clients (see: Battle of Kury³ówka). Those who fought the communists, were relentlessly hunted down. The fight was brutal, and the units loyal to the Polish government-in-exile did not hesitate to attack even large cities, to free their fellow soldiers kept in various prisons and detention camps across Poland.
List of attacks on Stalinist prisons, camps and state security offices
In 2007, the Institute of National Remembrance Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN), published the Atlas of the Independence Underground in Poland 1944–1956, listing scores of armed attacks on communist prisons after World War II, in which hundreds of political prisoners were freed. The most daring assaults were conducted before October 1946.
read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist_resistance_in_Poland_%281944%E2%80%931946%29
So, one one side, patriotic partisans who rejected the new totalitarian system
and Polish communist police, called MO, or Polish People`s Army.
Here, captured by the partisans
podziemiezbrojne.blox.pl/2006/03/Dzialalnosc-V-i-VI-Brygady-Wilenskiej-AK-1944.html
www.doomedsoldiers.com/