WE THINK REBELIANTS, POLSKA PARTYZANTS
Songs of "Soldiers Cursed"
"Our rebels, Polish guerrillas"...
Since 1990, many historians and historical publicists have been working to change the black image of "Cursed Soldiers" in the eyes of Poles, i.e. post-war heroes of the armed conflict against the Sovietization of Poland.
This is not an easy task, due to the fact that this image has been building propaganda of russian Poland for years. Countless, high-end, inexpensive books (for example from the series "The Yellow Tiger"), films and school meetings with the "combatants" of the militia, the safety Office, the People's Guards or the People's Army made the tragic heroes of the post-war, hopeless fight for the sovereign existence of Poland - who should stay in our hearts forever - become distant and alien, suspects of everything worst. "Nasi" was Hans Kloss, a associate of the vile russian comic book, and heroes of the lying tale of 4 tankists who - to avoid the problem of the Warsaw Uprising, in case they go to the infirmary erstwhile their division reaches Warsaw. The work of an ideologically trained officer of the political "people" army, reinforced by the best that Poland had at the time, acting cast, is inactive spreading havoc in the heads of the devotees of the Polish People's Republic and eternal relationship with the Soviets, although this criminal state is no longer present.
Constantly subjected to ideological treatment we thought of "Soldiers of the Cursed" ("Soldiers of the Unbreakable") at best as crazy people who unnecessarily put themselves and their families at hazard for UB revenge. And these families suffered in silence and suffered humiliation erstwhile they read one more time about their loved ones who were tortured in the UB kajamas, that they were "bandits", "reactive thugs", etc. Naturally, there was no way in the times of the Polish People's Republic to defend their right to good memory. Black propaganda was guarded by censorship and security. Books about "bandits" were written by UB officers in retirement and selling "literaries" or journalists. They were in favour of their dog service marked on the occasion of the successive anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, or on July 22nd, in the "national festival" invented by the communists to commemorate the "social and national liberation of Poland" by Stalin.
The changes after 1990 were very slow. As a consequence of the "bloodless revolution" at the circular Table, erstwhile communist apparatusists and representatives of the "reasonable opposition". Jaruzelski, Kiszczakami and akin did not want to reconstruct the national memory of people who were tortured in Mokotów, in prisons and basements of UB. After all, in the fight against "reactional gangs" they won Moscow epoles and positions. Moreover, after 1990, the post-Soviet media continued their activity and dry propaganda from the period of the Polish People's Republic, who inactive openly and unpunishedly mock post-war heroes of the fight against russian clique in Poland. It is hard to do otherwise, due to the fact that this russian Poland was their "people's homeland", the guardian of their privileges. They besides mock the Ipeenian run to clean public space from communist relics that offend Polish independence: Świerczewski Streets, 22 July, XXX years of the Polish People's Republic and similar.
The word "soldiers cursed"
As regards officers and soldiers of poakowski formations, NSZ and another post-war anti-Soviet groups first appeared in 1996 as the title of Jerzy Ślaski's book, "Niechuj" (1926-2002). Slaski was a soldier of Major Marian Bernaciak "Orlik" (1917-1946), commander of the "Freedom and Independence" branch of the Association in Lublin, murdered during the UB raid.
Then, in 2002, there was the celebrated album "Cursed Soldiers - anti-communist armed underground after 1944" released by the Warsaw publishing office Volumen, which preserved "Cursed", although it would most likely be better if we called them "Unbreakable" than "Cursed". It was not the Poles who "cursed" them, but russian polytruds. The album released by Adam Borowski was a large event for all Pole who had "Cursed" in his heart. At the time there was a process of annulment of death sentences and prisons issued for thousands of Poles for political reasons, for fighting for the independent existence of the Polish state. The process is possible thanks to the 1991 peculiar Sejm Act. The album came at a good time and played an crucial function in restoring the veneration of "Cursed", despite the fact that the biggest Polish media silenced it or mentioned it occasionally, once. In the introduction, the authors wrote: "The Red Army, entering our lands in January 1944, did not bring Poland freedom or peace. After initially interacting with the Home Army troops against Germany, the NKVD joined the arrests of officers; average soldiers were forced into Berling's troops. In particular, intelligence was exterminated to weaken the Polish component as much as possible. Despite this, the conspiracy, though importantly weakened, continued to defender independence. The opposition against russian domination immediately took the form of an organized armed conflict - the Anti-communist Uprising, which lasted until the late 1940s, and in any areas even much longer. It's been over 50 years, and the cognition of those events is inactive incomplete. In common consciousness, false stereotypes, which are the product of communist propaganda, proceed to repent. Peerelovian pseudohistorians, who for 45 years called this period "the era of the conflict for perpetuation of folk power", contributed to their consolidation. They created an highly false image of the past of the 1940s and 1950s to be found in textbooks, encyclopedias and occasional press articles. This procedure continued until the end of the existence of "people" Poland (...). We realize that we have small chance of changing the existing state of historical consciousness of our fellow countrymen. Exceptions include writers, directors, actors - people creating culture, curious in fighting for the truth, showing heroic attitudes, lying to the past. But in no case does it exempt us from the work to usage all the resources within our scope to change this state of affairs. We owe it to those who, 55 years ago, decided to fight armed forces in defence of the imponderabils, rejected the anticipation of existence under the co-laborators' rule. For us, participants of the anti-communist uprising are heroes".
At the same time, with the album, an exhibition about the "Cursed Soldiers", i.e. the Second Conspiracy of Independence, began to be called post-war opposition against the Sovietization of Poland, setting its time frame: from 3-4 January 1944, erstwhile the Red Army entered again, in pursuit of Germany, into the borders of the Second Republic, until 21 October 1963, erstwhile it died, in a militia raid under Piaski (in Lublin), the last Soldier "Cursed" - Józef Franczak nicknamed "Lalek" from the branch of Captain Zdzisław Broński "Uskok".
The Ballad of Cursed
On the occasion of the exhibition, the ballad "Soldiers of the Curse" was created, written, composed and performed by Michał Czajkowski, singer, poet, composer, writer associated with the Republican League, called the "bard of the Polish right". Her words - carefully thought out and you can see that profoundly lived by the author, due to the fact that given with large passion - contact the core of the problem:
"He drained the time of the blood wet,
The Red Sun again in zenith
Was it worth the war of the days
Is this the kind of country to die for?
There are generations of mocking laughter
It's the Communists having a holiday.
But the Wise God in the Three
He remembers what you were cursed for.
Before the last 1 goes with you
In the blue guerrilla serve
We'll all stand again.
Maybe past will repeat itself.
The exhibition is here today,
Since memory is the best weapon
And the dangerous thought of this exhibition,
That free men can't break anything
Let the evil plexus rise
And let Moscow dwarfs tremble
Shame on the Believers of the Sickle and Hammer
Glory to the independency of the dead!".
Leszek Tchaikovsky
Leszek Tchaikovsky is not the only bard he has in his heart "Cursed". On YouTube, we will perceive to many songs by Gdańsk bard Andrzej Kołakowski devoted to "Łupaszka", "Ince", "Fire", "Zaprze" and another heroes of postwar Polish drama.
Major and "Inka"
The exhibitions of the Gdańsk branch of the IPN "For the Holy origin - soldiers of Łupaszki" and the Warsaw branch of the IPN - "The Last Forest" and educational actions which match the characters of the Major "Łupaszki" were of large importance in the fight for the "Cursed" honor. For many years they have been writing about "Cursed", based on their own, thorough research, employees of the Warsaw branch of the IPN Dr Tomasz Łabuszewski, Kazimierz Krajewski and Jacek Pawłowicz. And not just them. A large interest in "Cursed" can be observed in the environments of young people, forming groups of historical reconstructions. possibly they, young Poles, will contribute to the return of the 'Cursed' to a well-deserved place in the Polish national pantheon, where any effort to put Kuronia, Kołakowski and others - people on the another side of the barricade, who deserve alternatively in perpetuating russian power in Poland.
We remember
Internet address ]]>http://www.zolnierzewylec.pl/]]> The reader will find the best Polish portal devoted to our "cursed" and "incorrect". I urge it especially to young people. It's worth looking at, especially after taking a higher dose of Cuba's "World" and akin toxic tv productions. The very motto of the portal reflects the essence of the matter: "A hopeless fight, a fight for a substance of pre-loss, is not a meaningless action (...). The value of the fight lies not in the chances of winning the case in which it was taken, but in the value of the case." These are the words of the Polish philosopher, from Vilnius, in the youth of the Legionary soldier Józef Piłsudski - Henryk Elzenberg (1887-1967). How they match the words of the "cursed" themselves! Major Lupaszko asked rhetorically: "Should we keep quiet?! Should we surrender to rape, to a strange, criminal hand?! Are we at hazard of alien bayonets to renounce self-declaration?! Shall we renounce the spirit, the heart, and deny the faith?" This was his and his soldiers' sacred origin for which they fought, regardless of the chances of this fight, due to the fact that the value of the fight lies in the value of the case, not in the chances of victory... Does anyone else realize today?
Historians believe that the breakthrough in learning the past of the post-war opposition of Poles against russian communism will be published 2 years ago by the IPN "Atlas of the Polish Underground of independency 1944-1956" - the first effort in Polish historiography to synthesize or alternatively a list of known facts, illustrated by many photographs and documents. Only that the atlas is comparatively expensive, it can be found in libraries alternatively than in home resources. Experience shows that popular movie and phonographic productions can be more crucial in universal social education.
We rebels...
A fresh initiative for memory of the "cursed" is the CD "We rebels. Songs of the Cursed Soldiers". It is simply a stone version of texts written by anti-Soviet underground soldiers or texts devoted to them. Stuff intended for young people, published by the Warsaw Uprising Museum. The performers and authors of the composition are members of the band "De Press" - unknown to the older generation, but well associated by young people, and that is the point. "De Press" is simply a Polish-Norwegian stone group, formed in 1980 by Andrzej Dziubek, a Polish immigrant from that time, known in Norway under the artistic nickname Andrej Nebb. Andrzej Dziubek is simply a mountaineer from Jabłonka, painter, sculptor, songwriter, musician. His "De Press" was a precursor to Polish punk stone with folk and mountainous motifs so popular today, known to us from the repertoire of the sympathetic and very popular by audiences in different ages of bands "Golec uOrkiestra" or "Brathanki". The most popular songs in Poland "De Press to": "Because I Love You", "The Challah's Messed Up", "Cy bocycie Świnty Ojce", "Cyrwone gorole". Even in the 1980s, "De Press" suspended operations, his leader formed the band "Holy Toy".
Today "De Press" comes back, and how it comes back! The album "We Rebels" may be the best evidence in his achievements if the media aid at least a small in his popularization. The title "Rebelians" is of course our soldiers "Cursed". "De Press" reminds of the songs of forest branches, in the reproduction of texts aid experts of the subject - Kazimierz Krajewski and Tomasz Łabuszewski from the Warsaw branch of the IPN and Grzegorz Wąsowski from the Foundation "We Remember". The dedication of Andrzej Dziubek, leader of the "De Press": "Mother and late Father". All who fought for the freedom and independency of the Homeland".
The CD includes an album containing all sung lyrics along with comments. These texts - regardless of the first performance by De Press - will be sung and distributed by various performers, including amateurs. It's a large advantage of the album "Our Rebels".
The choice of texts begins with the celebrated "Red Plague" by Józef Szczepański "Ziutka" (30 XI 1922 - 10 IX 1944), scout, soldier of the Warsaw Uprising, "Welcome" Red Army from the insurgent barricade a fewer weeks before the soldier's death:
"We are waiting for you, the red plague, to save us from black death."
We're waiting for you, red plague,
To save us from black death,
You would have torn the country apart before,
She was a salvation greeted with disgust.
We're waiting for you, you large crowd
I'm afraid I'm not.
We're waiting for you to crush us with your shoe
His flood and his slogan.
We wait for you, you eternal enemy,
Murderer of the bloody crowd of our brothers,
We are waiting for you – not to pay you back,
But welcome to the household door with bread.
Just so you know, hateful savior,
What death we want you in thanks
And as we hold our hands together,
Help me with a sneaky bully.
Just so you know, our executioners' grandparents,
Sibir's prison dreary legend,
As your goodness will all curse here,
All Slavs, all your brothers.
Just so you know how much it hurts.
Our children of the Great, the Independent, the Holy,
Chained with thy cursed grace,
A reeking yoke of age slavery.
The leg of your army victorious red
At the ft of bright burning Warsaw
And the soul is consumed with bloody pain
A fistful of madmen, which is dying on the rubble.
A period has passed since the Uprising,
You fool us sometimes with your whipping cannon,
Knowing how bad it's gonna be after that.
Tell myself they've made a fool of us again.
We wait for you – not for us, soldiers,
For our wounded – we have thousands of them
And the children are here, and the nursing mothers,
And after the basements, the plague spreads.
We wait for you – you wait and wait,
You're afraid of us, and we know that,
You're trying to get us all down here.
Our demolition at Warsaw is waiting.
You can't hurt us, you have the right to choose.
You can aid us, you can save us
Or wait and die...
Death is not terrible, we can die.
But I want you to know that from our grave
Poland will be reborn,
Which you won't walk on,
Red ruler of the shattered force.
Józef Szczepański "Ziutek", 1944.
I wonder if teachers are utilizing this poignant poem to present to the students the drama of Polish "liberation" in 1944? I don't think they know him. besides bad. All the more appreciation for "De Press" and colleagues that they put this text in their album.
"The Song of People Without a Home" is an anonymous song, sung on Podlasie in the wards of the Poak anti-Soviet guerrilla: "What awaits us tomorrow, we do not know"... They didn't know, but they didn't look back and consider the odds. possibly they didn't rather understand, but they felt profoundly what the Vilnius philosopher wrote about: "the fight for the substance of losing in advance is not a meaningless action"...
The title track "We rebels" was created in the branch of the anti-communist partisan AK over Germany! It was the anthem of the ragners, soldiers of Lieutenant Czesław Zajączkowski "Ragner", who did not accept the fresh annexation of the Polish Kreses by the Soviets in 1944. He died with his soldiers on 3 December 1944 in the fight against a powerful (more than a 1000 officers) NKVD peculiar Branch under Nieczycza. "We have cast our own homes, we have cast distant our loved ones, not to compose volumes, nor to win the hearts of the ladies... We don't want hooks or hammers, and we're disgusted by the Germanic enemy. Today, we want to pay off our blood debts for Poland" ...
"The March of the branch of 'Fighting'", or young Major Hieronim Decutowski (1925-1949), tormented in a cruel way by the UB, repeats the ragnerian game about the inevitability of fate, but besides about the work that is above the voice of 'reason': "And they go inactive forward, for specified a fate, and neither regret nor longing, can turn them back from this way, due to the fact that it is the 'Fighting' infantry"...
"The Wind from Turbach" is simply a song by soldiers Joseph Kuras "The Fire" (1915-1947), about which they say he performed a miracle on the Podhale. Thanks to him, after the war, the PPR had to go underground...
The song "We will go faithfully" was treated almost as the anthem of the 5th Vilnius Brigade of the AK Major Sigismund Szendzierz "Łupaszki" (1910-1951). On the occasion of the upcoming 100th birthday of 1 of the most prominent commanders of the Polish anti-Soviet partisan Polish Post Office prepares a commemorative card. Congratulations on your initiative! On the occasion of this anniversary, it would besides be worth reasoning about occasional publications and possibly recalling songs sung in Major's troops. There were many of them, lyrics and notes are known. The album "De Press" featured another track "hubby", borrowed from neighbors from the 3rd Vilnius AK Brigade, Lieutenant Gratian Fróg "Szczerbca" (1911-1951), murdered after the war from the communist "court". It's a song called "On a Fight", called the Vilnius AK Brigade anthem.
"Tough Time" is simply a song sung after russian "liberation" in the branches of the AK in Novgorod and Grodzień. "Oh, God, bring back Poland." specified a coupation in the mouth of border guerrillas whose fight had no chance of success due to Stalin's alliance with our "aliants", awakens even after years deep sadness.
In the troops of Captain Władysław Łukasiuk "Młota" (1906-1949), legend of the anti-communist partisan of Podlasie, among others, an anonymous "Patrol" was sung: "When 1 is killed, another will happen. We walk in scars to the Liberty of the Gates."
The song "Bij bolshevik", referring to the patriotic Polish ethos formed between 1919 and 1920, survived thanks to the poakian soldier Self-defense of Volkovian Land. 1 more song from the faithful to the end of the army. " Beat the Bolshevik in all form, due to the fact that this is your top enemy today. He was the 1 who paved the net of his countless ways with your brothers' bones."
The song "Las Makoshka" resembles the guerrilla branch of brothers Leon and Edward Taraszkiewicz from the territory of Włodawski, known under the pseudonyms "Jastrzeb" and "Żelazna". The authors of the text were "Jastrząb" and the legendary Captain Zdzisław Broński "Uskok" (1912-1949), who burst out with a grenade erstwhile surrounded by UB group.
"Seventh" is simply a song-testament written by a soldier of anti-communist guerrillas in Grodziejczyzna by Józef Stasiewicz "Lonesome". He died in the fight against the NKVD in January 1950!
In 1 of the wards of the "Professors" a touching song "May you pray" was sung, referring to the subject of the separation, so well known even from Polish poesy and painting during the January Uprising.
The album closes Zbigniew Herbert's celebrated poem "Wolka". Herbert's attitude to the tragic soldiers of the post-war partisans was clear: "I felt respect for those who remained faithful to the end, in the woods, without hope (...). Let's not let the dead die." I powerfully repeat these words of the poet and urge the album "De Press" to all fellow countryman.
If you could add a small bit of pain to the honey barrel, I would say that I feel sorry for older listeners, for whom specified a condition of sharp stone is unrepentant and who most likely consider that all songs have the same tune... besides bad they were eliminated from the possible audience. And it was adequate to usage any musical quotes in a fewer places - a melody from the past, which were "the Ark of the Covenant between old and fresh years." It is all the more justified that any lyrics from the disc were written under specific, well-known compositions, which can be easy recognized by rhythm and by metro. The title "We rebels" was undoubtedly written under "First Brigade". "The March of the Dam Branch" was written with a view to the tune of popular "Pants", likewise "We will go faithfully". And here's another note. Well, erstwhile the historian cares about the fidelity of the text with the evidence found in the soldier's notebook. but this soldier's record, 1 of the following copies, should not be treated as a canonical text. Under the conditions of the forest troops were possible deficiencies and errors in the records, the metro does not agree. This needs to be corrected by adding a square bracket. erstwhile you edit something for the first time, for a thirsty specified spiritual food of the recipient, you gotta take work for this edition - as a model for the future. "We have rebels, Polish guerrillas. We went into the [dark] forest due to the fact that it was time due to the fact that the time had come"... This ragner anthem, if popularized (and we all want it very much), will be sung not according to the first composition "De Press", but to a melody from 1917 that imposes itself here...
These remarks do not in any way diminish the value of the undertaking for which all its creators deserve thanks from these compatriots, who are close to the memory of the "Cursed - steadfast" soldiers of the Republic, faithful to the end of the sacred cause.
Pray (author unknown)
The night was dark and the meadows were mangled with aromas.
The wind whispered, holding the trees of the crown, from far distant in the village they ate dogs.
Then there's the sound and the throbbing of many cars, young voices calling power,
This is coming a guerrilla camp to take quarters for the night.
And there was individual there, so thoughtful,
which in his eyes had the thought of a large purpose.
individual who dances the forest tango with me,
He whispered with silence these unusual words:
Pray, present in my intention,
due to the fact that I have a journey ahead of me, dangerous and evil.
possibly your prayer will work for me.
And save from the evil that he asks yes.
And it's been so long since that moment,
And I inactive have a image in my heart.
erstwhile the sun is set, the night is falling,
And I can inactive hear the turquoise and the sound of the cars the same.
But there's individual who's so brooding,
which in his eyes had the thought of a large purpose.
individual who danced the forest tango with me,
And quietly whispered these unusual words:
Pray.
"Pray..." is simply a song sung in the partisan troops of Lublin and Podlasie. Especially popular in the Roman Duma "Romana" branch, which was formed by August 1945 as part of a group of poakowski troops subordinate to Lieutenant/Mjr. The request contained in the title of this text is now as timely as in times erstwhile the text was created and lived, sung by guerrillas to take. It is simply a request for prayer of the fallen and murdered "last forest". And if anyone does not know the words of prayer, let him simply remember these losers, to the end of the faithful, to the end of the brave, to the end of the free. They passed, lost, smoke only chokes and screams advanced in fog, "in fog" this phrase derived from June 1944 of the poem by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński turned out to be prophetic besides for them - the Cursed Soldiers - the steadfast. They did their best. They went, utilizing the expression of Andrzej Bobkowski, an emigrating Polish writer, to thighs with communists, not to bargain or, as 1 of the soldiers of the "Fighting" said, "They went lost." They fought to defend freedom to death, not to live, and that is why in this fight they died in the large majority. Unfortunately, in the collective awareness of Polish society there are no specified people. Their scream, the tall one, from the fog, does not scope the sensitivity of most of us. It is adequate to mention that although "Soldiers of the Cursed" were avant-garde in the fight against communism, during the twentieth anniversary of the overthrow of communism in Poland celebrated in June 2009 were not even mentioned. Let the De Press group's evidence strengthen their scream. Let him make it heard for you. possibly it's a cry for your good memory of them.
Piotr Szubarczyk IPN Gdańsk
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