Stanisław Michalkiewicz: Salwa of Justice
It is very fashionable in any circles to claim that in our unhappy country nothing has truly changed since the times of the commune, or even – that it is worse now than it was then. For the first time, the cry “communo, come back!” came in 1990, erstwhile on 1 January the laws consisting of the alleged “Balcerovich plan” entered into force – which actually allowed the erstwhile “nomenclatura” and thus – the environment of communist power – to keep and even establish in fresh political conditions a social position.
Not to mention the material property obtained by the “property of the nomenclature” in the second half of the 1980s, erstwhile on a massive scale state property was stolen through the alleged “nomenklatura companies” and “afer”, which is headed by “mother of all scandals”, i.e. the abroad Debt Fund. The state spent $1,700 million on an illegal operation to focus on the global financial marketplace of Polish debt.
Debts were concentrated – and of course – but only for $60 million, while the remainder disappeared – not completely without a trace – due to the fact that traces remained, among others, in the form of alleged “old families” and any independent mainstream media. Period over “and” was set by Mr Janusz Lewandowski from Liberal-Democratic Congress, companying operation of the alleged “common expropriation” which took the form of the Act on National Investment Funds and their privatisation.
It has led to a financial slurring of citizens, and Mr Janusz has found an asylum in the European institutions, where no severe hand of justice can scope it.
Although there is much to propose that opinions that are now akin or even worse than for communes are inspired by environments that have not only benefited materially from the systemic transformation, but, above all, they have received a priceless thing in the form of impunity, both of the swindling in russian collaboration and of stealing the state in the course of the systemic transformation – but both the opinion and the majority, possibly even all those inspired by this environment, are not true.
A change for the better, although morally satisfying, has been made despite the eating of various villains and fools.
Here in the last days I attended the ceremony of Mr Stanisław Szostak, a soldier of the Home Army, then – a solid soldier, who are besides called “cursed” – “a graduate” of a dense prison in Wronki (“they are Wronki, lovers!” – the guards called to the arrived prisoners, who had to strip bare to welcome) - until finally, after enjoying the freedom regained in 1956, he died in Warsaw, having lived 100 years.
The singularity accompanied him, not only in the times of the commune, erstwhile it was inscribed in his individual proof that he was born “in the USSR”, while he was actually born in 1924 in Ignalina, a village within the Polish East Borders. The same was actual of my father, who was besides attributed “in the USSR”, although in 1902, erstwhile he was born, the USSR did not yet exist.
Mr Stanisław Szostak was already born in Poland – but even now the independent authorities of the Republic did not want to admit it, and although they no longer attributed him to birth “in the USSR”, for a change they attributed him to birth “in Lithuania”. It turns out that Michał Kryspin Pawlikowski was absolutely right erstwhile he wrote that we were going back and back, on the fresh “curzona line” – and it seems that we did not say the last word in this case.
But Stanislaw Szostak, not only did he reiterate in his youth, but since 1942, erstwhile he joined the Home Army, where he adopted the nickname “Jadzin”, tried to paper the Kres’s affiliation to Poland, serving as a soldier of the Division Center No. 23 as part of episode 5 “Wachlarza”. In 1945 he was first arrested by the NKVD, but miraculously managed to escape.
Having entered Krakow, he starts studies, but at the same time, following the orders of the head of the PFA Staff in the West, according to which the order to dissolve the AK did not concern the Vilnius District, he creates a diversional patrol within the Vilnius AK territory Mobilization Centre. As part of this service, he executed, among others, the death conviction on an NKVD agent. In 1948, Commandant OM WOAK Antoni Olechnowicz “Podhorecki” was arrested, with lists of members of the organization found during the revision.
Stanisław Szostak was arrested in Szczecin and after a dense investigation, during which he did not turn anyone in, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by an independent court. He went to Wronek, where he left in December 1956, but had to study to the militia all week. It was not until 1991 that the independent court overturned that judgment. Mr Stanisław Szostak then said:
“I always believed that Poland would become independent, I just didn’t believe it would happen in my lifetime. Now I am happy and arrogant that the court of Independent Poland, by cancelling those offered from abroad sentences, restores honor to its defenders. besides many have not experienced this satisfaction. But if past is to be the teacher of life, let this symbolic justice be the weak 1 to warn, and the faithful oaths and ideals to encourage that their faithfulness was not in vain."
And here, after mass in the Church of the Virgins of Visits, a ceremony conduct with military assistance passed through the Military Cemetery alleys in Powązki, passing the tombstones of well-deserved russian collaborators: Edward Ochab, various LWP generals, among others – Wenceslas Komara (properly Mendel Kossoja), slow moving towards the destination. There the priests performed the execution, and the orchestra played an aviso “note!” – the signal of the Polish Army spoke, saying goodbye to the National Army officer, Captain Stanislaw Szostak.
When the coffin was dropped into the grave, the officer in charge of the assist unit gave the command: “charge!” – and after a second: “salt – stake!” which was repeated 3 times.
“And for his young years, a trumpet will play: a tramp. And for his hardships, he will be shot by 3 bullets,” says the old military song “How good is it in war”. 3 rounds, 3 volleys... Not much – but that is how justice was completed in front of the participants of this funeral. There wouldn't be a commune for that, so there's a difference.
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