Marek Baterowicz: KAPŁANI WYKLENIE

On the National Day of Memory of the Cursed Soldiers, established on 1 March – which was hard to carry out in the Sejm in 2011 – priests besides have a peculiar title for this memory, who in various circumstances supported the fight of soldiers cursed against the Soviets, occupying our Homeland after the war. It was the real Anti-communist Uprising as it was called at the threshold of the 1990s by the poet and author Bohdan Urbankowski. And in his book “The ringing of Gyges” (W-wa, 2013), which is the complement of 2 volumes of “Red Mass”, Urbankowski utilized a fresh version of this name writing about the Anti-Soviet Uprising (op. cit., p.169). possibly it was more precise, due to the fact that in fact in Poland there was a partisan against russian occupiers, erstwhile Poles despised separately and without appeal, aside from the fewer groups infected with the aberration of Marxism or opportunism, besides terrorized by Stalin's “priests” and the inhabitants. On the margins, it should be mentioned that in 2011, at the end of the legislative work in the Sejm, at the request of the SLD MPs and the Civic Platform, the phrase “anti-communist uprising”(!) has unfortunately been removed, which shows as badly as possible the representatives of these parties, but it is besides not amazing to note the roots of the SLD and the origin of the PO, the organization founded by General Czempiński of the UOP (but erstwhile SB agent), which is worth reading about in “Resort children. Services’ (W-wa. 2014, p.37-38).

In this 2011 Parliament, as many as 8 Members opposed in general the establishment of the National Day of Memory of the Cursed Soldiers, which was revealed in the publication of the Independent Polish paper with the pen of Dariusz Jarosiński (“New State”, 2017, no. 3, p.43-47). We read that 5 were from the PO, 1 from the SLD and 2 alleged independent MPs – Andrzej Celiński and Kazimierz Kutz. And going back to the “anti-communist uprising” Jarosinski rightly noted that the word poet Bohdan required considerable insight at the time, imagination, while native historians were inactive babbling about civilian war. Jarosiński besides draws an analogy between the January 1863 uprising and the anti-Soviet uprising after 1944, for, as he writes, “soldiers cursed with the same determination, with the same desire for freedom, in God's name fought in this hopeless situation with the occupier from the East, just as their ancestors did in 1863, especially in Podlasie, Mazowsze and in east and confederate provinces. And in one, and in the another uprising, the Polish priests played a immense role, serving not only as chaplains, not only in prayer supporting soldiers...” The most celebrated here is priest Stanisław Brzóska, cursed by the Russians, hunted and hunted by them until the spring of 1865! Before the uprising, he held a prison conviction in the Zamość fortress for preaching patriotic sermons, and after the outbreak of the insurrection he formed his own ward, he became chief of the territory of Łukovsky. He then obtained a general degree and a chaplain of all insurgent forces. He fought for a long time, the Russians did not get him until 28 April 1865, and unfortunately they hanged him on 23 May in a public execution in Sokolov Podlaski along with Franciszek Wilczyński. But on May 23, 2008 Polish president Prof. Lech Kaczyński (the first president without a briefcase!) marked the second unbreakable January insurgent with the Order of the White Eagle.

So the priest-hero of January was like a precursor to priests cursed from the Anti-Soviet Uprising after planet War II. His spirit seemed to be reborn in priests supporting the fight for Poland's independency erstwhile our powerful Allies left us, bowed to Stalin and fulfilled all want he had, ignoring the destiny of the countries conquered after the war by the Russians. So openly mindless politics, especially Roosevelt, then Truman, was an inconceivable gift to Stalin, due to the fact that she allowed Russia to make a immense empire that immediately showed teeth to the free world. And he does so constantly, threatening the West to this day. Thanks to Roosevelt's boundless foolishness, the free planet inactive has a large enemy and a large problem even today. And the situation of the countries occupied by the Soviets was highly tragic. The fight for our sovereignty was then a conflict almost without hope, but continued with the love of the Homeland, the patriotism of the AK formation, religion in God and disgust with the absurdities of communism, which did not fit Polish rationalism. Mr Jarosiński , from many clergy devoted to Poland in these post-war times chose 3 figures – the father of Władysław Gurgacz, the Jesuit, Fr Bolesław Stefański and Fr Felix Kowalik – faithfully presenting the peripeties of their biography, dramatic and tragic against the background of the war destroyed by Poland and destroyed further by the fresh occupier. The Russians exported what they could, industrial machines, coal and even pianos that were collected in ports rotting in the rain. And they destroyed the regulation of law that has not yet been reborn. Repressions towards patriots, so towards the priests cursed, were a painful dimension of that time, cannot be forgotten in the fresh century. And as you think, Catherine Gójska “with the fact about the soldiers cursed is precisely as with the fact about the Smolensk drama. Poland's right state requires disclosure of both, due to the fact that without it, the demolition of post-communism will not be possible.” Places of battles, conspiracy, ambushes, erstwhile the forest was their asylum, and yet raids on the steadfast. And then cruel torture, death sentences – this was not even spared by clergymen, the author presents it all with the passion of a historian. And it is best if the reader reaches for “New State” ( 2017, no. 3) to learn about the shocking episodes of Polish past in the account of Dariusz Jarosiński, and discover the heroic dimension of those Poles who loved Homeland in order to give their lives for her.

Marek Baterovich