Riflemen's Association

Riflemen's Association

"Związek Strzelecki "Strzelec"" (Riflemen's Association "Rifleman") was a Polish paramilitary cultural and educational organization created in 1910 in Lwów as a legal front of Związek Walki Czynnej, and revived in Poland in 1991.

An important part of the Association's mission was training young Poles in military skills. Before World War I, the Riflemen's Association provided military training to over 8,000 people, and its trainees subsequently formed an important part of the Polish Legions in World War I.

Prominent members and leaders of the Riflemen's Association included Józef Piłsudski, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Władysław Sikorski, Marian Kukiel, Walery Sławek, Julian Stachiewicz, Aleksander Prystor and Włodzimierz Tetmajer.

The Riflemen's Association was revived in Poland in 1991, after the fall of communism.

ee also

*Polskie Drużyny Strzeleckie

References

*Polish|Związek Strzelecki "Strzelec"|30 April 2006

External links

* [http://www.dposstrzelec.dolsat.pl/ Riflemen's south district headquarters]
* [http://www.js1001.dolsat.pl JS 1001 Bełchatów]
* [http://www.strzelec2006.republika.pl/ JS 2006 Nowy Sącz]
* [http://republika.pl/zs_strzelec2007/ JS 2007 Tymbark]
* [http://tomaszow.info/?s=strzelec JS 2019 Tomaszów Lubelski]
* [http://www.js2023.pl/ JS 2023 Wodzisław Śląski]
* [http://www.wiszniamala.pl/strzelcy.htm JS 3003 Trzebnica]
* [http://www.interka.pl/~strzelec/indexa.html JS 3005 Olesno]
* [http://zwiazek-strzelecki3021.webpark.pl/ JS 3021 Dzierżoniów]
* [http://www.strzelec.of.pl/ JS 3024 Katowice]
* [http://www.js2029krakow.go.pl/ JS 2029 Kraków - SF Unit]

* [http://www.strzelec.net.pl/ Riflemen's north district headquarters]
* [http://republika.pl/js1003/ JS 1003 Warszawa]
* [http://www.sokolka.pl/strzelec.htm JS 1014 Sokółka]
* [http://www.js4018.gower.pl/ JS 4018 Gdańsk]
* [http://www.js4026.neostrada.pl/ JS 4026 Rzepin]
* [http://www.js4031.szczecin.pl/ JS 4031 Szczecin]
* [http://www.zsbielsko.ovh.org/ Unit Bielsko-Biała of Riflemen's Association]
* [http://www.js2028.pl/ JS 2028 Częstochowa]

* [https://wfs.gc.cuny.edu/RTarwacki/www/Riflemen.pdf/ Related Article - The Riflemen’s Association: (Związek Strzelecki) Origins and Outcomes of a Nationalistic, Polish Social Movement]


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