A call from his wife woke him up at 5 a.m. There is war, bombing across the country," she said. At 6:00, he was packed, sitting in a bus to the Rytomierz. He could not imagine staying in Poland erstwhile his closest vulnerability are on bombs
He says about himself: – After years, I am already more Legniczan, or even Lower Silesian. He likes to walk around the Square [a settlement in the russian army in Legnica – ed.]. He renovated quite a few apartments there: bathrooms, kitchens, rooms... And it happened outside. She looks at her work with sentiment and hopes to stay for many years. What another profession brings specified satisfaction despite the passing of time? Houses stand as silent evidence to human effort and ingenuity. This ingenuity must have had a lot, due to the fact that the houses in which he worked belonged to the Germans, then to the russian army. What the Germans did was old, and the Soviets... What they could do – they stole, what they couldn't bargain – they destroyed. It was a shame to see houses so devastated. She says it was only the chaotic that could have acted like this. After 30 years, he sees the same in the east of Ukraine. He's watching due to the fact that he's in the army. He defends his homelands: Ukraine and Poland.
Stefan or Stepan?
Stefan (name in Stepan passport, but the full household calls him Stefan) is simply a Pole from the area of Żytomierz, about 100 km from Kiev. Poles have lived there for over 400 years. They suffered like all of us, but they were affected by more. 2 genocides that were committed in the 1930s. First the hunger – Stalin thus murdered Ukrainians and Poles. And then “Polish action”, where tens of thousands of Poles were shot. After the Second planet War, Stefan's grandfather's brother – Pavel – managed to go to Poland, to Legnica. Stefan's grandpa – Florian – besides went to get permission. This ended reasonably well for russian conditions. He came home after a fewer days, and his grandma was pulling blood out of his shirt. That's how the NKVD got his thought of leaving and a fewer teeth. That's why the full household on this side stayed in the russian Union.
In the Krasnodar Country
The divided household kept in contact as shortly as they could exchange letters, and this was not welcome in the USSR. Stefan did military service as a mechanic driver. He was doing it in Estonia, and he inactive remembers the streets where he came to ride. After service, he came home, took up work. 1991 and the USSR came, “prisonment of nations”, fell, families began to visit.
Stefan went to work in Krasnodarsk Country, Russia. He worked well there, mostly thanks to the pop, which warned the Russians and Ukrainians working there from hatred, exhorting them never to fight each other. Stefan remembers him very well, he was a actual priest. He met many Ukrainians there, who in times of communism received a residence order there, so in the Krasnodar country Stefan seldom utilized Russian, the local population mostly spoke Ukrainian.
In the mid-1990s, Stefan returned from Russia to his home, then left for work in Poland, to Legnica.
Legnica
His household invited him to Legnica, this part from Grandpa Paul. Stefan is not demanding, he is very hardworking. He got to know himself from the good side and directed the people who came from the east. It was not meaningless that he knew Polish, they utilized it at home.
He worked in Poland until 2022. Over 20 years of building Polish houses and swimming pools. Yeah, Stefan besides worked putting up pools. It was done by a Legnica company that sent it to all Poland. As he says, he met good people everywhere. She doesn't complain, but sometimes it was hard. After all, no household in a abroad country. His wife and children stayed under the Żytomierz, where he built a home in his spare time, bought the land he cultivates. Not much, but it has its potatoes, fruit and various vegetables. There's inactive a surviving memory of the 1930s in this neighborhood. By age, everyone is trying to have something of their own.
So war...
On 24 February 2022 he was woken up by a telephone call from his wife, it was 5 a.m. War, bombings across the country," she said. At 6:00, he was packed, sitting in a bus to the Rytomierz. A day later, he was at his family's house. He could not imagine staying in Poland erstwhile his closest ones were exposed to bombs.
A rocket fell close their home during a failed attack. There was a immense bang. An old fuel base was attacked. Stefan, although not called at first, could no longer go to Poland. And he did not want – how to leave his boy with his daughter-in-law and grandchildren?
Stefan, thanks to his contact in Legnica with the Foundation “We aid and Dot”, began to bring the aid he distributed between Poles and Ukrainians. No difference, and there were many needs. He even came to Dowbysz, a habitat of Polishness. He lived there for many years The Soldier of the Cursed Franciszek Yakovczyk, who spent 20 years in Siberia for fighting the Soviets.
If I die...
In mid-2022, the army decided that it needed a specialist like Stefan. He did not duck, like many younger ones, went with full awareness. The household in Poland asked that if he died, the wife and possibly sons should be brought to Poland. due to the fact that he's afraid his wife can't handle the economy without him.
Stefan in the army is simply a doctor. Since he served as a mechanic-driver in the USSR, he drives wounded. The sight of the wounded is not easy, and the Russians are very eager to shoot Sanitary and paramedics. The right word is they're hunting them. But Stefan's neither humor nor the spirit of conflict leaves. He approaches his service as if he protected his household in Ukraine and Poland.
I've spoken to him many times. She doesn't complain about the servants. He says those who have not fought can't wait to get in position. Those who have already been waiting calmly – they know the taste. He and any people are already in region zero (area of combat contact), carrying wounded. The hard sight is dying people, young people without legs, hands – disability for life. A bullet exploded close him recently, his friend virtually evaporated. He was standing nearby.
For his service to be safer, I request a fewer things. He asks for night imagination goggles, due to the fact that sometimes he has to drive the injured at night, the lights can't light on driving – and hit the Russian patrol or diversion group is the death of him and the wounded. They request a permanent tourniquet. Each healthy soldier should have a minimum of 4 for each limb of one. The doctor – for himself 4 and as many as possible, if the injured does not have a band. Stefan besides dreams of a good helmet, but most of all he needs a good terrain car, inexpensive. This kind of car costs about 16 1000 PLN.
That's all we want to buy him by referring to people of good will.
More details about the drop at the link:
Persons who want to support Stefan or another soldiers, and do not want to deposit via a drop account, can make a transfer to the Freedom and Peace Foundation account. In the transfer title delight enter the password ‘for Stefan’.
Account number of the Foundation Freedom and Peace: Bank Santander 79 1090 1056 0000 0001 4423 1803
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About the Foundation itself you can learn more from the links placed .
