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Ever heard of the "cursed soldiers"? Me neither

submitted by Broc_Liath to History 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 09:06:55 ago (+32/-0)     (History)

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.

Authored by Fireforce Ventures

[Online References]
(https://pamiec.pl/.../13592,OSTATNI-JOZEF-FRANCZAK...) NEEDS TRANSLATION
(http://www.doomedsoldiers.com/the-last-soldier-of... )
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Franczak )


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[ - ] deleted -1 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 10:36:23 ago (+0/-1)

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[ - ] deleted 3 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 11:01:37 ago (+3/-0)

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[ - ] Rawrination 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 16:52:40 ago (+0/-0)

They would have been so much better off joining the germans instead of fighting a 2 front war.

[ - ] Broc_Liath [op] -1 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 17:01:32 ago (+0/-1)

You mean those guys allied with the jewish terrorists they'd been fighting for the past few decades?

[ - ] account deleted by user 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 23:07:33 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] fightknightHERO 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 23, 2021 16:14:41 ago (+0/-0)

This would make for a great game story IF polish vidya industry weren't kike'd to the bone...

[ - ] AlexanderMorose13 1 point 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 11:54:07 ago (+1/-0)

Inspiration for Red Dead Redemption? Died outside a barn in a hail of gunfire after taking a few of them with him.

[ - ] Thisismyaccount 3 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 09:27:10 ago (+3/-0)

Very interesting history article. thanks for submitting it.

[ - ] TheGreatWhiteHope 3 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 15:28:00 ago (+4/-1)

Most of them turned themselves in when the Commies offered them amnesty for hunting Nazis; They were summarily executed.The reason they trusted the Commies is that their country had long been run by jews, so what was the difference. One jewish government out, another one in.

Interesting story, but it's hard to feel bad for Poles when they got what they were asking for. Become jewish puppets, get disposed of when you're no longer useful.

[ - ] fightknightHERO 1 point 3.6 yearsOct 23, 2021 16:13:06 ago (+1/-0)

Their hatred of germans blinded them to the malice of the (((Russians)))

[ - ] Broc_Liath [op] 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 16:44:54 ago (+0/-0)

Source on the country being jewish prior to commie occupation? I thought Pilsudski was based, was he not?

[ - ] deleted 2 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 18:13:20 ago (+2/-0)

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[ - ] beece 4 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 09:36:18 ago (+4/-0)

Wow, what an amazing story.

[ - ] 0rion 4 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 10:10:10 ago (+4/-0)

A true legend. And it teaches us all a great virtue to live by; NEVER give up, and never stop fighting.

[ - ] derpfroot 4 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 11:27:09 ago (+4/-0)

hell bent on hunting down and assassinating communist collaborators, and traitors.
Good man...traitors get it first. I can't think of anything worse than fucking over your own people. Having tattletales, from your own people, ruining your country.

Brave man...he didn't falter. He stayed in the fight to spill as much (((bolshevik))) blood as possible.

Also, your second reference link is broke: https://www.doomedsoldiers.com/the-last-soldier-of-sovereign-poland-pt-1.html

[ - ] cyclops1771 5 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 13:53:37 ago (+5/-0)

The Forest Brothers fought in Lithuania into the 1970s.

[ - ] deleted 13 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 09:54:43 ago (+13/-0)

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[ - ] boogienight 3 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 12:08:26 ago (+3/-0)*

Well while you wouldn't want Jewish pussy while doing REAL work in your life. If you were a high level banker or something then her inner Jew may be satisfied, but not while doing REAL work, but to be fair, any pussy in his line of work would have lead to trouble. The idea of James Bond being national spy and fucking everyone is bullshit, anyone doing anything critical like that would need to have no attachments and no one to rat him out. Already hard enough to trust all your male combat partners who actually witnessed blood spilling and helped the mission, but some hole you've been fucking has basically no reliable loyalty when it comes to high level intrigue and therefore can't be trusted on any level. Their gossipy nature and desire for interesting conversation would eventually fuck everything up. Bitches can't keep secrets.

[ - ] Broc_Liath [op] 3 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 16:47:38 ago (+3/-0)

The original portrait of james bond was of a ruthless misogynist who used women and cast them aside as convenient. Kinda like a rule 63 femme fatale.

This isn't unrealistic either, intelligence agencies have often used sex against both male and female targets to achieve desired results.

[ - ] boogienight 1 point 3.6 yearsOct 24, 2021 01:11:28 ago (+1/-0)

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.

[ - ] Irelandlost 2 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 11:55:54 ago (+2/-0)

Are you sure? Doesn’t sound like he was much a fan of jews so hard to see him having a jewish mistress.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Józef_Franczak

[ - ] solomonpapermaster 1 point 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 11:28:51 ago (+1/-0)

Mazur is not a jewish surname.

[ - ] UncleDoug 8 points 3.6 yearsOct 22, 2021 11:53:57 ago (+8/-0)

Jews coming from Mazowsze in central Poland used the region abbreviation 'Mazur' as their family name.

Sounds like a common jew surname of Polish origin.