On TV, they mention the deceased in 2014 a union activist Kazimierz Świton. If he was alive, he'd be 94. I read in respective texts that he was a nationalist, and the Free Trade Unions of advanced Silesia were national-Catholic. It's a complete lie.
I met him in the mid-1990s. It was a time erstwhile Kazimierz Świtoń, despite his mature age, only learned the basics of national ideology. This was due to young nationalists who utilized his office on Młyńska Street in Katowice. The head of the National organization "Szczerbieć" in which young nationalists operated was erstwhile activist of the illegal National-Democratic League. They knew Kazimierz Świton from meetings in Catholic and anti-abortion movements. Baranski drew the Switons into the national movement utilizing the easiest passwords and associations. With Kazimierz Świton himself, I talked for hours. I was the coordinator of the Non-European Union Association, in which Kazimierz Świtoń acted actively and selflessly. There were days that we spent a fewer hours giving distant anti-EU materials. Kazimierz Śnitoń wanted to act, not analyze. In my opinion, he never read the "Thinks of a Modern Pole" I gave him.
In modern Poland it is attempted to make a legend of Free Trade Unions – both of these Coasts as well as Silesia – as formations cursed, independent and pure as tears. That is not true. The Free Trade Unions were not national-patriotist-independency organizations as they are painted today. In the first stage, attempts were made to make a story of the independence-national structure established on the Coast of Free Trade Unions. This was hard due to the fact that Lech Wałęsa, Bogdan Borusewicz and Bogdan Lis functioned there. The Coast WZZ was to be the cornerstone of this "real solidarity". So it was invented that there was a national core based on Anna Walentynowicz and Andrzej Stara. Many believed this due to the fact that the Law and Justice through the Institute of National Memory, especially Sławomir Cenckiewicz, created Anna Valentynowicz as “the parent of Solidarity”.
Her senseless fierceness towards Lech Wałęsa and tragic death in the Smolensk plane crash facilitated this task. After any time, however, the story of "national-Catholic and unbreakable anti-communist activist" did not withstand confrontation with reality. More press releases exposed the truth. Valentinovich spent her full life hiding her Ukrainian background. In 1 of the last interviews, he tells Caesar Gmyz an imaginary communicative about his father's death – a large patriot who died during the September campaign. In fact, her father fought in the Red Army ranks. He did not die until 1995. Her brother, however, was in UPA, and was sent into the russian Union. She had 5 siblings in Sienna, Ukraine. During the war, erstwhile she was a child, the Polish Teleśnicki household took her in. They drove her out of Volyn. The Ukrainian, the daughter of a Red Army soldier and the sister of a UPA associate was on average suitable for the patroness of the patriotic-independence camp. Later, the issue of belonging to the Union of Polish Youth and Women's League arose. The toughest “good-changers” proceed to believe in the unbreakable “Anna Solidarity” rejecting all facts.
The second legend of WZZ Coast, i.e. from the Trotsky Workers' Defence Committee Andrzej Stara present is associated with the fight in courts for further damages for "unbreakable activity against People's Poland". It's not different – he went on a road led by Zbigniew Romaszewski and many others. In 2021, in court proceedings, the title of compensation and compensation for internment in the state of war was yet declared to Andrzej Gwoda. In 2023, the ultimate Court held that he deserved as much as PLN 1.3 million as compensation and compensation for arrest from 1982 to 1984. I didn't follow his destiny any further. I know he's an uncritical supporter of Law and Justice.
The PiS media must have found a fresh myth. And present they effort to build it on the Free Trade Unions of advanced Silesia. They think that the creation of the advanced Silesian Free Trade Unions, which were created before those on the Coast, is perfect. However, fewer remember that the environments associated with the Centre's Agreement were fought by their creator Kazimierz Świton. This did not stay in their debt by placing the Kaczyński brothers on their list of Jews. Today, however, Kazimierz Świtoń is mainly associated with the defence of the Papal Cross at the Oświęcim Żwirowisko and participation in sectarian circuses in Krakowskie Przedmieście. For people who know the résumés of the activists of this formation, it seems more than neckless.
Kazimierz Świton in PRL was an activist of the Democratic Party. He took part in a hunger run of the KOR at St. Martin's Church. He had very different and different views in successive stages of his life. In 1990, he became president of the local organization – advanced Silesian Christian Democracy. In the 1991 election, as her candidate, he obtained the mandate of an MP for the Sejm of the 1st word of office from an entirely uncognizable Polish patriotism of the Silesian Autonomy Movement. Without a doubt, Kazimierz Świtoń was a Catholic and felt that political actions should be guided by the teachings of the Catholic Church and in a circumstantial sense "providence". In the past of parliamentaryism, he enrolled himself in the fact that he publically accused president Lech Walesa of working with the safety Service. Later, he was better known for selling a compromising "list of Jews", which included prof. Wiesław Chrzanowski, Andrzej Zoll or Mieczysław Rakowski.
In addition to Kazimierz Świtonia, crucial activists of the advanced Silesian Free Trade Unions were: Militarian Władysław Sulecki (1931-2004), from the communist movement Polish hebrew Ignacy Pines (1902-1986) and soldier of the Wehrmacht, and later Polish Armed Forces in the West Roman Kściuchek (1925-1994). I'll remind you briefly of their resumes.
Władysław Sulecki – during the war he was reportedly in the Grey Lines. I never found any evidence of that. Eventually, 1945, the household moved to Earth Recovered. In 1948 he enrolled in the Union of Polish Youth. In 1950 he entered the ranks of the Universal Organization of “Service of Poland”. In 1952 he joined ORMO. In December 1956, he was admitted to the PZPR. From 1955 to 1956, he was an officer of the Civic Militia. After 1956, his ways with the organization split. He became very spiritual and from these positions attacked the PRL. However, he worked with the Trotskyst Committee for the defence of Workers. In 1979 he left Poland and moved to Hagen (RFN). He performed on Radio Free Europe. In May 1979, he headed the Solidarity Committee with Free Trade Unions in Poland, which was established in Augsburg. On September 26, 1979, he attended the 3rd session of the Sakharov Committee hearings in Washington. He collaborated with the Coordination Committee of NSZZ Solidarity in Paris. He died in Germany in 2004.
Ignacy Pines is actually Isaac Pines. During his studies he became active with the communist movement, he was a associate of the Communist organization of Czechoslovakia. After returning to Poland in 1930, he joined the Communist organization of Poland (KPP). In 1943, he was in the Union of Polish Patriots (ZPP), then to the PPR and PZPR. He was excluded from the organization in 1956. From December 1950 to November 1952 he was a political worker of KW PZPR in Katowice. Fascinated by Trockism. It has become radically anti-communist since 1968. He was the founder of a fresh formation called the Pension defence Committee next to the Workers' defence Committee. He powerfully supported opposition activities, assisted intern families. Pines withdrew from operations in early 1980. Apparently, under a pseudonym in any flyers he attacked Doc. Józef Kossecki, as Kazimierz Świtoń himself told me about. He died in 1986.
Roman Ksciuchek was forced into the Wehrmacht during planet War II. From 1944 to 1946 he was a soldier of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. He returned to Silesia and lived in Mysłowice. In 1968, for reasons incomprehensible to me, he was fired from his job. He maintained, among others, from poultry farming in the farmhouses and from renting apartments in the house. Since 1978, ROPCiO participant, then KPN. In the autumn of 1980, he co-founded the Independent Local Trade Unions of the confederate Poland Region "Piast", which did not play a serious role. After 1981, he did not engage in opposition activities. He died in 1994.
None of these activists opposed to the People's Poland strategy is suitable for the icon of the anti-communist right. But that doesn't bother those story makers. After all, the résumés of Jan Olszewski, Antoni Macierewicz or Wojciech Ziębiński were besides poorly suited to the story of conservative or national formation. Kazimierz Świtoń, of course, was a Polish patriot. A man of warm heart, an opponent of the European Union and NATO. But that doesn't mean he was an endec. Calling it "Dmowski's faithful disciple" is simply a complete lie.
The democratic opposition in the People's Poland had, above all, an insurrectional, social and independency face, uncritically pro-Western and highly rusophobic. The neo-endek or Chadecki Nurt did not have much importance in formulating the perfect Solidarity face. People with national views were number there and were usually combated. I think that more people who understood Roman Dmowski's ideas at the time were in the Polish United Workers' Party, and surely in St. PAX or the Polish Catholic-Social Union. Thus, the tradition of the NRA, WZZs, KPN, PPN and "Solidarity" is practically completely alien to the National Camp. The main creators of the NSZZ “Solidarity” were the KOR activists. The political scene of the 3rd Polish Republic for over 30 years was ruled by people widely understood as "Solidarity", or their pupils.
Due to the time, this arrangement passes. The political scene is starting to redecorate. However, the machers of politics know that a shallow national thought can be a good lure for less-formed voters. People who emotionally identify with Polish nationalism. It's easy to catch these unformed people politically. The national thought through caricatural radicalisation can be utilized for action against our nation. That is why it is so crucial for the authentically endek environments to focus primarily on education and education. Put as national patterns those people who come from the authentic National Camp. In view of the importance of the subject, we must firmly reject all the erects that have been placed upon us. By choosing this path, we can be certain that we are fulfilling the will of our large predecessors.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
Think Poland, No. 33-34 (17-24.08.2025)
