Historical calendar: the anniversary of the court issued by the Warsaw Military District, death conviction against Colonel Ryszard Kukliński.
Today in our calendar we will look at this man's life story.
He was born in Warsaw to a working household of Stanisław and Anna from the Kotaniec house. My father died in the Sachsenhausen camp in 1943 for belonging to the independency conspiracy. Richard, despite his young age, besides engaged in underground activities and was exported to Germany at the end of the war. Upon completion of his military activities, he came to the alleged Recovered Lands and lived in Wrocław. He started his locksmith course there.
For any time, he besides worked as a guardian of crucial urban facilities. In 1946, he joined the PPR as it was the main condition for social promotion in People's Poland. A year later, he began teaching at an officer's infantry school. He appeared there as a very capable student, who rapidly made up for his deficiency of education. Nevertheless, in 1950 he was removed from the college as he was accused of operating in the AK and another underground organizations of the days of war.
After 2 weeks he was restored thanks to the intercession of General Stanisław Popławski, whom he most likely impressed during 1 visit with cognition and communist idealism. Indeed, he was a follower of the ideology of Marx, Engels and Lenin, though most likely for purely professional reasons. After obtaining the rank of Ensign, he became a platoon commander in the 9th Infantry Regiment stationed in Pile. He then served in another units.
In 1952 he married Joanna Christ, with whom he had 2 sons. He formed contacts with the E.R. for which he collected information about the situation in his branch. He besides participated in intelligence activities. Under cover of cruises within the yacht club he was a associate of, he helped research the coast of Sweden, Helgoland and the mouth of the Elbe. He was educated in advanced school for those working in Kolobrzeg, and after his graduation he began his studies at the Rembertów General Staff Academy.
He was a kind of workaholic who did not ask unnecessary questions and conscientiously performed the tasks recommended to him. The stress associated with work was exacerbated by many romances. He rapidly advanced, becoming major in 1963, and Colonel in 1972. In the mid-1960s he moved to Warsaw, where he worked in the General Staff in cells dealing with training and operational planning. He was a valued specialist who was allowed to the top secrets of the LWP. He took part as an observer of the Warsaw Pact's maneuvers and war games.
In 1968 he developed a plan to invade Czechoslovakia. He partially learned russian plans to launch and run planet War III, in which he was named to usage atomic weapons. During the Vietnam War, he was seconded to work for the global Commission for Control and Supervision of the Geneva Agreements. He saw with his own eyes the crimes of communist troops. Over time, doubts arose as to the sense of the socialist strategy and the loyalty to the alliance of the Polish People's Republic and the USSR.
He was peculiarly frightened by the russian war doctrine, which threatened to completely destruct the Polish state and nation. In the 1960s, the U.S. adopted a fresh doctrine for the usage of atomic weapons called the "flexible consequence doctrine". In Europe, it marked atomic strikes in the immediate back of the front in the case of the russian invasion of western Europe. This direct background was Poland, which would turn into a rubble and 1 large cemetery even in the event of the final triumph of the Warsaw Pact.
The turning point at which he lost his illusions about the criminal nature of the government was the massacre of Coast workers in December 1970. He decided to make contact with the United States services, which he besides did in 1972. As Jack Strong, he provided them with very crucial staff information, a full of respective tens of thousands of documents. These included method data of the latest equipment, the deployment of Polish and russian units and command bunkers. He felt this would prevent the worst, or planet War III, and destruct the country.
Such a war was most likely planned for 1981, but russian intentions stopped leaks of confidential information, prolonged opposition of Afghanistan and the creation of a mass “Solidarity” organization in Poland. Kukliński participated in the work related to the introduction of martial law. He transferred plans for this operation to the West and a forecast of possible entry into Poland of Soviets. president Ronald Reagan He took a firm course against Moscow and threatened that any military intervention in the PRL would consequence in American retaliation.
The Soviets decided to step back and decided that Jaruzelski was to solve the problem of “Solidarity” by his own forces. In the fall of 1981, the counterintelligence of the Polish People's Republic began to intensively search for sources of information leaks. Kukliński felt threatened. On November 7, he and his household were evacuated to West Berlin and further to the US. On May 23, 1984, in a secret trial, the Court of Warsaw Military territory in the past sentenced him to death punishment and property confiscation. 1 of the conditions for the admission of the 3rd Polish Republic to NATO was its pardon, to which it reached in 1997.
Both of his sons died in unexplained circumstances. It is suspected that this was the revenge of post-communist peculiar services with the WSI at the head.
Ryszard Kukliński is an example of a individual who underwent a Sienkiewicz transformation from Kmicic to Babininicza. He was a Communist, a careerist, and a fornicator who at 1 point realized the evil strategy he served. The information he gave the Americans forced the Soviets to correct their plans and postpone during the planet War, which yet did not happen at all.
In this way, despite his individual shortcomings, he became 1 of the most crucial defenders of Polish faith, household and property, which was threatened by complete, physical annihilation. To this day, many post-communists and pseudo-patriots consider him a traitor. But he did not betray the Polish Nation, but Polish-speaking leaders like Jaruzelski, who held power in the interests of the Soviets, and after 1989 – Jews.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here..
