- Freedom and Independence
Zrzeszenie Wolność i Niezawisłość WiN ("Freedom and Independence") was Polish underground anticommunist organisation founded
September 2 1945 and active to1952 .The main goal of its activity was to avoid Soviet domination over Poland and to defend civilians from communism. Its primary method was not military action against the state but rather to provide protection (false documents, money) for former soldiers of
Armia Krajowa and other resistance organizations not allied to Soviets and thus treated by them as enemies of the state.WiN announced the falsification of the
Polish people's referendum, 1946 toUN Security Council .It was prosecuted by Russians and Polish communists.
NKVD soldiers andMinisterstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego agents carried out a bloody war with its 30,000 men inMazowsze and Lubelskie region. WiN's soldiers liberated many Russian jails in Poland, killed collaborators and communist agents as well. The organization was however penetrated by UB agents, with major deconspiration as early as late 1945.WiN's presidents
since
September 2 1945 toNovember 5 1945 colonelJan Rzepecki since November 1945 to
October 18 1946 colonelFranciszek Niepokólczycki since October 1946 to
January 5 1947 lieutenant colonelWincenty Kwieciński since January 1947 November 1947 lieutenant colonel
Łukasz Ciepliński References
* cite book | last = Wnuk | first = Rafał | chapter = "Polska konspiracja antysowiecka na Kresach Wschodnich II RP w latach 1939-1941 i 1944-1952" (Polish Anti-Soviet Conspiracy in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic, 1939-1941 and 1944-1952) | title = "Tygiel narodów" (Melting Pot of Nations) | publisher = ISP PAN / RYTM | language = Polish | location = Warszawa / London | year = 2002 | isbn = 8388794728 | pages = pp. 157-251
ee also
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Public Execution in Debica (1946)
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