"On 1 way destiny cast us, he intertwined us,
We had 1 song singing in the forest, but time flew.
And 1 boiler fed us, the fire shared,
But we were out of time, enjoying ourselves.
As we walked in a tight march together, the song sounded audible,
All of us were laughing at each other.
After us various adventures and deeds of fame,
Some under the shelter night are knots that bind us.
We had a unusual spell, a starry ceiling,
And camping gibberish deep in the hearts of the ruffles.
In the sun's rays, we were baptized by a cluster of us,
There is something between us from now on that lies in our hearts."
(The song of the Black Thirteen of Vilnius, by Antoni Vasilewski "Professor")
It is 45 years since the beginning of the crucial phase in the past of Scouting – the beginning of the activities of the Scout Instructors Circles named after Andrzej Małkowski. On this occasion, in Warsaw, they saw each another after years and remembered besides their loved ones, but besides today's instructors and scout instructors, inactive the current message of the Circles, its members and instructors operating in the Movement.
A fast replay of history. Already in the 1970s, the thought of the revival of Scouting in the conventional pre-war form was germinated in a twelve "immodest" Scouting environments, operating within the Polish Scouting Union. The statutes and educational program of the ZHP, implementing the model of alleged socialist education, were opposed. The anticipation of a moral revival of Scouting was sought in the spirit of the conventional 1932 text of the Law and Scouting Promise. The request was to uncommunise the movement and return to scouting methods. erstwhile strikes broke out in August 1980 and there was “Solidarity”, these dismal instructors, including this crucial social movement in the fresh past of Poland, began to appeal for authentic scouting, creating the Circles of Scout Instructors named after Andrzej Małkowski (KIHAM), and shortly afterwards “Hard Solidarity” – the Agreement of Scout Instructors Circles named after Andrzej Małkowski.
KIHAM created perfect and methodical foundations that served to reconstruct authentic scout organizations in the free and independent Republic. The engagement and initiatives of KIHAM allowed not only to store, but besides creatively make a deposit of pre-war scouting, whose heir and successor is the Union of Scouting of the Republic.
