Today it is equal to 60 years since the liberation of the city of Poznań from German occupation.
In February 1945 Stalin's order was issued, that regardless of the victims of the Poznań citadel must be captured on 23 February on the anniversary of the Red Army.
In battles for the capture of citadels – the last point of opposition of German occupiers alongside russian soldiers took part and many acquaintances – Poles were besides killed.
It is sad that even many years after this liberation - fewer of us - the acquaintances realized that the bloody German government based its power on terror, death camps and the Germanization (Germanization) of the Greaterpolan - was converted to almost equally ruthless communist russian in which even parents could not pass on historical and patriotic fact to their own children so as not to harm them, due to the fact that they would hazard being arrested by the safety office, torture and prison and having a good occupation at 100% surveillance by staff departments in all state establishments and cooperatives could forget for life. They would besides gotta get approval from the Chamber of Crafts and its powerful communist apparatusists, and they had zero chances of doing so.
The insolent step in the patriotic Poznańaks was after many years the restoration of the street name on 23 February as commemorating the supposedly day of liberation of the city of Poznań (changed as part of the decommunization of Lieutenant Janina Lewandowska) which was given, which is recorded in papers from the gathering of the Poznań City Council in deciding on the name of this street in honor of commemorating the anniversary of the Red Army! These were times erstwhile Hippolyta Cegielski's plant was named ZiSPO (establishments named Stalin Poznań) and Katowice was named Stalinogród from March 1953 to October 1956.
The only affirmative sign of historical justice had Poznańac after the trial of the German executioner - Gaulaiter Gaulaiter Arthur Greiser, who was executed on 21 July 1946 at 7.00 p.m. by hanging in the presence of thousands of people gathered on the slopes of Poznań citadel. At the time of Greiser's hanging a 100 thousandth audience, among which were besides children, clapping and whistling. It was the last public execution in Poland.
