Courtesy of a colleague Maria Swidra I have an chance to read his book about a prominent commander. Constant Rokossowski.
The introductory word to “Marszał Rokossowski” was written by prominent figures of Polish science. So we have Prof. Maria Szyszkowska, Prof. Stanisław Bielenia, Prof. Włodzimierz Osadcza, Prof. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja and Dr. Artur Bartoszewicz. Introduction to the book was written by the grandson of the Marshal of Poland Konstanty Rokossowski Jr. In my opinion, this is simply a adequate advice to read and have a book in your collections.
Mariusz Świder addressed a hard subject in today's Poland. Regardless of our ruling option, the IPN's fact is revealed. However, he decided to break the imposed schemes and make a fair assessment of the defiled marshal of Poland and the russian Union. This book pierces the wall of collusion of silence, which was built around the individual of this forgotten commander.
The life communicative of Konstanty Rokossowski eludes those who see the planet in black and white colors. Rokossowski is the boy of a Polish railwayman, a soldier of the Tsar Russian Army, the Red Army, the Polish Army and the russian Army. But it is besides the victim of Stalinist cleanups in the Red Army and the reluctance of Poles to the russian military staff after 1956. In October 1956, I think he spoke to the later ZP activist “Grunwald” Gen. Franciszek Cymbarevich with the words: "Ot, Cymbarevich, the irony of fate, in Russia, I was Polish and in Poland Russian".
Many years ago, we drank vodka at a campfire with a legendary Home Army guerrilla. Antoni Heda-Shary (1916-2008). After the war, the Bermans sentenced him to death penalty. I've learned things that don't mess with my head. He told me that 1 day the keys took him out of his cell and led him to the skylight. There was a Major Military Information waiting for him. He introduced himself as Adjutant of Constant Rokossowski, greeted him from his prime minister, and assured him that he would be pardoned. He promised that he would survive, and after all, there was virtually no chance, for breaking up prison in Kielce in 1945. He told Heda-Share that Rokossowski besides "was wrongfully in russian prison". A week later, it seems that on Good Friday Heda-Gary was summoned to the prison warden's office, and there he was told that president Bolesław Bierut unexpectedly changed his death punishment to life imprisonment. In 1956, Antoni Heda Grey was released from prison. It is said that Mieczysław Moczar, in turn, testified about his fair fight with Germany. There was a gene for the remainder of his life. Grey was convinced that life owes to “Mother of God and Rokossowski”.
The book by Mariusz Świdra creates a feeling of participation in an extraordinary adventure of life of the large commander, who most likely does not by his own will embody the hard destiny of the large Poles of the 20th century. I hope that the next figure over which Mariusz Świder will bow will be General Zygmunt Berling. Another victim of Styrofoam dintojra.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
