21 years ago, American spy Richard Kukliński died on CIA services. Today in Poland it has its museum, monuments and streets. Kukliński worked against the Polish Army, in which our fathers and grandparents served.
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Either the traitors are Gen. Jan Mazurkiewicz "Radosław", Gen. Stanisław Skalski and Gen. Stefan Mossor, or Ryszard Kukliński. There's no another way. There is no logical or moral defence of the false argument that he was doing it for our sake. Nor can it be defended that he worked against our “Soviet oppressor”. Kukliński carried no secrets of the Kremlin, but secrets of the Polish Army. In a possible conflict, the Polish Army, Poland and Poles would be treated as an enemy.On May 23, 1984, the Military Court in Warsaw sentenced Richard Kukliński's homeland to death punishment in an involuntary sentence. However, an American intelligence agent of the Central Intelligence Agency died naturally on February 11, 2004 in Tampa, United States. Ryszard Kukliński besides received a advanced CIA award – Distinguished Intelligence Medal – a discrimination awarded only to US citizens. The president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, appointed Ryszard Kukliński posthumously as Brigadier General on 2 September 2016. In the 3rd Republic, an agent of a abroad power became a hero. This is crucial and saddening.
Using half-truths, and working the minds of Poles that white is black and black is white soliditers have achieved their own. Kukliński permanently visited as a patron of streets and squares. It has its monuments and plaques, unfortunately even inside churches. In the Basilica of St. Brygida in Gdańsk, where the priest was an immoral chaplain of Solidarity, Fr Henryk Jankowski hangs a plaque dedicated to Kukliński. all year on the anniversary of his death, awards are presented there, which are figures of U.S. president Ronald Reagan. This is done by a certain Society of “Houriness”. The celebrations are attended by state officials and church hierarchs. Prof. Mirosław Golon, manager of the IPN branch in Gdańsk, spoke there once, saying: "Ryszard Kukliński said in the 1970s, and he established this for 20 years of earlier service in the communist army, that Poland would either be free or not at all". Antoni Macierewicz, erstwhile he headed the MON, said that Kukliński "should be a model for all Polish soldier." Władysław Pasikowski made a movie titled "Jack Strong". There are dozens of almost hagiographic texts, pamphlets and books about it.
How all this is far from the thought of the endec. Roman Dmowski wrote in his fundamental work "Polish policy and rebuilding the state" the following words: "The hazard of Poland, its future must not be lost either by the individual, or by the organization of any, or even by the full generation." But it is hard for people from a movement financed by abroad intelligence to require reasoning by categories of nation. If Kali spy for Russia, that's treason. If Kali spy for the U.S. it's heroic. That's what Styrofoam communicative sounds like. 1 of the basic moral concepts of betrayal must not be relativized. There is no betrayal of bad and good. An officer's betrayal concerns his own army and his own people and specified treason cannot be forgiven. After all, aliens are expected to have different or even other interests. He fights for his homeland and his people—and his duty. The traitor, on the another hand, is 1 of us who stands by the enemy. all healthy nation excludes traitors erstwhile and for all, and even a wise enemy never full trusts them. They always deserve nothing but contempt.
It's worth knowing what oath Kukliński broke. For there was nothing about any russian Union, or communism in his 1947 declaration: “I curse solemnly to the Polish Nation: to fight to the last breath in defence of the Homeland liberated from German force and to keep the freedom, independency and power of the Republic of Poland. I curse to obey the duties of a soldier, obey the orders of my superiors, follow the strict rules and keep the military secret. I curse to service with all the forces of the Republic of Poland, to defend its democratic strategy and to stay faithful to the president of the Republic. I curse to stand firm on the rights of the Polish people, to have all citizens in equal respect and never to defile the dignity of the Pole. So aid me God.”
Ryszard Kukliński himself claimed that he was faithful to the AK-owska oath from the German business period. I think it's a lie, but even if he did, there's nothing in her about being allowed to betray his country. His affiliation with the anti-German underground raises reasonable doubts. Colonel Tadeusz Szymanski “Lis” erstwhile called him “Polish Baron Münchhausen”, pointing to his intransparent biography. There were quite a few inconsistencies in his relationship. Ryszard Kukliński was born in 1930, so erstwhile the war started he was 9 years old. Sam claimed he belonged to the Home Army (AK) and fought even in the Warsaw Uprising. In another, he credited himself with belonging to the Christian-national group “Sword and Plow” or the communist “Młota and Sierpa”. Then he stated that he was a front soldier for respective weeks. However, the witness' evidence and his own evidence to the organization committee show that he did not belong to any underground organization and never fought on the front. That's not the only contradiction in his resume. He claimed that in 1944 he was taken to the 3rd Reich. He erstwhile claimed that he was taken by train with the surviving Polish citizens of Moses' religion and stayed in Lower Silesia, and according to another account he was to be in a concentration camp for beating German teenagers. After the war, he was educated as a locksmith at the Water and Sanitation Plant and was a defender at the soap factory. In 1946 he joined the Polish Workers' organization (PPR). This year he was besides arrested for robbery. It is not known why he was released. The reason for the dismissal is not known, as in 1992 the papers relating to this period of his life evaporated from the folders. He was to be in the Voluntary Civic Militia Reserve (ORMO) and as a associate of this formation to participate in the folk referendum, but besides this information from his résumé disappeared.
For any time there have been voices that “Kukliński was a GRU agent and was recruited by the Americans, under the cover of this interview.” I don't truly believe that. There's any leads, but there's no credible evidence. Life at a level far above the surviving conditions of officers who have received the same military wage as he received specified proof cannot be. But even if it did, it doesn't change anything. That would only mean he was an agent of 2 interviews, and his betrayal would be double.
I utilized to wonder why the solidarity elites were so strong, but to a lesser degree besides any of those from the party-based weapons of Kukliński's biography. A fewer years ago, I accidentally watched any historical program, where the b. activist of the Society of Polish-Rodzicka relationship (TPPR) spoke, and later writer of Radio Free Europe (RWE) and sowietologist Józef Szaniawski. In People's Poland, he was accused of cooperating with the CIA. He was besides convicted. He was acquitted by the ultimate Court in late December 1989. At that time, he said something like, “The life communicative of Kukliński is simply a biography of 2 generations of anti-communist opposition in russian Poland, only brighter. In his résumé there are any of our résumés.” It's ridiculous, but not precisely how you think about it. specified a translation of their choices completely justifies and whitewashes them. If the Polish People's Republic considers the creation of the “Soviet”, then actions against this country, even for abroad money and in abroad interests, seem little immoral. Following Szaniawski's lead, a part of Kukliński's proceedings was in KOR-ra, KPN and Solidarity.
Author: Łukasz Jastrzębski
