Polish Secret Police in Lublin: It is difficult to imagine 45-years of communist reign in the so-called People’s Poland without its secret police. It was the most essential instrument of that system, at first, ruthlessly liquidating the post World War II underground insurgency and then for many years extinguishing any and all forms of social ...

Oct 18, 2011 · Formed in 1956 it gradually built up an extensive network of agents and informants, infiltrating just about every aspect of Polish life in a concerted effort to snuff out voices of dissent.

The Ministry of Public Security of Poland (Polish language: Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego or MBP) was a Polish communist secret police, intelligence and counter-espionage service operating from 1945 to 1954 under Jakub Berman of the Politburo.

In Poland: Police …mobile paramilitary riot squad—and the Security Service (SB), a secret political police force. In the early 1980s ZOMO played a key role in enforcing martial law and controlling demonstrations. The paramilitary nature of the Policja (“Police”), as they became known after 1990, has diminished. Read More

Jan 21, 2021 · This chapter explores how the Polish secret police was transformed from a military-style institution into a police bureaucracy. It shows how thousands of new officials were brought into the service in the early 1950s as the regime waged a …

Jan 1, 2001 · That same day, three officials of the secret police, Captain Piotrowski and the Lieutenants Waledemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, were arrested. A statement by the Polish primate, Joseph Cardinal Glemp, was read in the Polish churches on 25 October. Earlier that day, Waldemar Chrstowski answered questions put to him by Western

Jan 1, 2007 · This article provides a critical review of Oczami Bezpieki (Through the Eyes of the Security Service), an overview of post-1945 Poland based on secret police files by Slawomir Cenckiewicz. The essay sheds light on the ongoing controversies surrounding the secret police files that still can cause turmoil in Polish politics.

Feb 7, 2021 · The murderous Ministry of Public Security (Polish: Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego), commonly known as UB or later SB, was the secret police, intelligence and counter-espionage agency operating in Polish People’s Republic.

SKW is a secret service responsible for the protection of the country against internal threats for the national defence, security and combat capacity of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland and other organisational units subordinate to or supervised by the Minister of National Defence.

Oczami Bezpieki is a loose compilation of historical essays that provide an overview of Communist rule in Poland as seen in the documents of the noto-rious secret police, the SB. The essays and supporting documents in the vol-