The Left, together with representatives of the city, schools and troops, celebrated Radom’s “liberation” by the Red Army.

The celebrations were held on Tuesday, January 16. At 10 a.m., flowers were placed at the plate of the Unknown Soldier's Sepulchre in front of the garrison church and ecumenical prayer for the victims of planet War II led by Fr. On behalf of president Radom Radosław Witkowski, the Secretary of the City Hall, Michał Michalski, took the floor. The flag of the Association of Kombatants of the Republic of Poland and erstwhile political prisoners were students of uniform classes of the Schools of the ZDZ in Radom. The ceremony was besides attended by a delegation of the fresh Left with president Waldemar Kaczmarski and Bogdan Barszczyński, Edyta Malec-Ćwiek, Elżbieta Jagieło, Ewa Barszczyńska and Wanda Siek.

A further part of the event took place in the Orthodox cemetery at Warsaw Street under the monuments of Red Army soldiers. There were besides flowers placed on a CD commemorating the Red Army, as well as ecumenical prayer. This time, the parish priest of the Orthodox parish of St Nicholas the Miraclemaker Fr.

The full was organised on the initiative of the informal Governing Council of the Żołnierski Union and Kombatancki Radom, chaired by Zbigniew Gołąbek. The Council consists of Presidents: the Association of Polish Compatants and erstwhile Political Prisoners, the Board of the territory Soldiers Association WP , the Board of the Branch of the Union of Veterans and Reserveists WP, the Board of the Branch of the Union of War and Military Invasions, the Board of the Branch of the Association of Military Aviation Seniors WP in Radom.

The ceremony was chaired by the president of the Board of the territory Soldiers Association, Stanisław Kuśminski. They were attended by delegations of the above-mentioned organisations, chaired by their presidents, and in the case of ZWIR WP – Zygmunt Pluta.

“We believe that we must cultivate specified anniversaries to show the posterity that they should never search war, that they should search friends on the global phase and conduct abroad policy wisely. The intent of our participation in these celebrations is to cherish the memory of all those who died during planet War II, regardless of their religion and nationality: civilians and soldiers fighting in defence and for the liberation of Poland" - highlighted on the authoritative website of the Left.

Also last year, representatives of the Left laid flowers on the graves of Red Army soldiers, but without representatives of the city or schools. all year in July representatives of the Left meet besides in the forest of Skuszewskito commemorate, among others, Colonel Alfred Wnukowski – commander of the Public safety Corps battalion, which was liquidated by the WiN group led by Tadeusz Zieliński, ps. “The Needle”. In both events he participated in erstwhile years new Vice-Voivode of the Mazovian Patrick Fajdek.

“The Liberation of Radom”

Radom was occupied by the Wehrmacht on 8 September 1939. For 5 years the inhabitants of the city lived in the shadow of the brutal panic of the German occupier. Everyone heard about executions on Firlej, among others.

In the summertime of 1944, the front stopped on the river Vistula. By January 1945, the city had news of what was happening in Lublin. There was talk of agricultural reform. As Mrs Walewska, from Kowała, wrote, they knew that they might lose their property. The Russians associated as badly as possible, with 1920 and 1939, but it was alternatively common to believe that what would come could not be worse than the German occupation. Poland was expected to be a democratic state and although any of the freedom before the war would be restored. Let us remember – the last transport to the concentration camp came out of Radom a fewer days before the russian offensive, and the last execution on Firlej was de facto the day before the Russians entered.

Thus, the joy of the end of the German business prevailed among the joyful before the Soviets entered. Unfortunately, the “liberation” brought by russian soldiers was the beginning of another terror.

In Radom, the communist environment was alternatively fewer and devoid of influence. surely the structures of russian intelligence were functioning in the city – later actions of russian military counterintelligence Death wasn't random. Officers knew personalities, addresses, they knew precisely who was in conspiracy structures and in social life. The Russians were perfectly prepared to take over and proved to be highly effective. Already on January 17, the day after Radom, the occupiers searched the city and arrested about a 100 people. Most of them were judges, lawyers and others crucial to the social life of a person. The communists' first actions announced another dark period in the past of the city.

The Soviets first reported to the then Radom justice and the president of the territory court, Adam Bobkowski, who was asked to arrange a gathering of all judicial staff with the War Chief of the city of Radom Major Ivan Volkov. It was encouraging to know that the Russians were planning to delegate post-German housing to people in the worst material situation.

The gathering took place in a court building located at Piłsudski Street. The Russians waited until dark and... released any of the judges and judicial staff. It is not known until present what caused this decision. Most likely it was about creating an atmosphere of distrust in Radom society. Arrested persons were transported to the erstwhile office of Schutzpolizei.

On the night of 19 and 20 January 1945, prisoners gathered from various places of retreat in the city were loaded onto trucks and transported to Przyłęka, a tiny village in Lublin between Garwolin and Dęblin, where there was a makeshift russian prisoner-of-war camp. Then any of the imprisoned – including all those who confessed to their activities in the conspiracy – went to work camps on Ural. Not many of them came home. Among them were 2 judges – Jarosław Dubrovnik and Titus Kaun.

“When my father returned home, he was so externally altered that we could not meet him. At his tallness of 188 cm he weighed only 47 kg, he was ulcerated all over his body, had wounds to the bones on his legs" – the daughter of justice Dubrovnik recalled.

Not only the Soviets, but besides the authorities installed by the Russians stained their hands with the blood of the people of our region. In 1947, the safety Office murdered Stanisław Egiejman – a social, founder and manager of Jan Kochanowski mediate School, 1 of the most respected people in the city. In 1950, the same criminal structure murdered Alexander Młyński "Drągal", a legendary guerrilla of the 2 conspirators who operated in our region.

The list of people from the Radom region who died at the hands of the Soviets and their Polish supporters is long. The question is whether the participants of the events worshiping the Red Army and the power brought to the russian bayonets – do they not have cognition about this or do they premeditately present flowers to representatives of the enemy of our country and the nation of the army?

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