Turns out after the commies invaded poland the poles didn't just roll over. At least one of them kept fighting right up until the 1960s.
58 years ago today in 1963, one of the last and most well-known anti-communist resistance fighters in Poland, Józef Franczak, is killed by Soviet authorities.
Sergeant Józef Franczak was serving in the Polish Army, when the Soviet Union invaded in 1939. He was captured in the initial chaos of the invasion, quickly escaping an joining up with the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to resist both Soviet and German invaders. At the time, he was only 21 years old.
After almost 4 years as a guerilla fighter, he was again captured by Soviet forces and forcibly conscripted into the communist People's Army of Poland. After witnessing the execution of several comrades in the Home Army, he quickly defected and escaped to Lublin, where he linked up with a local anti-Communist guerilla group. It was roughly around this time that he adopted the nomme de guerre “Lalak”
Soviet pressure against his hastily organized band of anti-Communist fighters increased significantly after the end of the Second World War. In 1946, he was captured for a third time by Soviet forces. He vowed never to be captured again. His escape would be less stealthy, with Lalak personally killing four of his captors, and leading a small band of anti-communist fighters to freedom. He became one of the Żołnierze wyklęci, “the cursed soldiers”, who fought a bitter struggle against the Soviets as communism engulfed their beloved Poland.
In 1948, his cell of fighters was almost entirely killed or captured after a bank robbery. For the next 15 years, he would operate alone. A one man army, hell bent on hunting down and assassinating communist collaborators, and traitors. He continued to fight on, the other “cursed soldiers” were killed, arrested or surrendered after the general amnesty of 1956.
The Soviet and communist Polish authorities tried everything to catch Lalek. The houses of every single one of his known relatives were monitored and bugged. Lalak would seldom be able to see his family again. Severe threats of execution and imprisonment were announced as his infamy grew, but at least 200 sympathetic Poles were known to have secretly supported his activities.
In 1963, Lalak was now 45 years old, having spent most of his adult life at war. In October of that year, he planned a secret meeting with a lover who had bore him a son. It was a secret little family, he would seldom see. He would never meet up with them, as a communist sympathizing relative of his mistress reported his movements to the Polish Secret Police. While enroute to the meeting, he was intercepted by 35 communist militia and police forces from ZOMO who cornered him in a barn. He attempted to talk himself out of the situation, identifying himself as a simple farmer. The ZOMO agents drew their guns, and demanded papers.
Lalak gave them lead. Completely outgunned, and outnumbered, he drew a concealed submachine gun and fired first. He was felled in a hail of gunfire, afterwards having his body mutilated as the ZOMO agents decapitated his corpse. He never surrendered, and is recognized as the last anti-Communist resistance fighter in Poland. The last of the cursed soldiers.
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boogienight 1 points 3.6 years ago
An agency uses sex to get information, but a male spy thinking he can use his mysterious career to trick women into fucking him because he's mysterious is a dumbass play. A rookie's mistake.