DISINFO: The Polish anti-Communist partisans were bandits killing civilians
SUMMARY
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance is actively working on the glorification of the so-called “cursed soldiers”, participants of the post-war underground. These people did not want to return to a peaceful life after WWII and they were involved in numerous murders of Polish and Soviet law enforcers and civilians. The Polish campaign of justification of bandits and history rewriting will have a miserable end.
RESPONSE
This message is part of the Kremlin’s policy of historical revisionism. It accuses the Polish authorities and state institutions of “falsification and re-writing” of its history and an alleged information war against Russia.
The Polish “cursed soldiers” is a name for a number of post-war anti-Communist resistance movements. Within the first post-war decade, a significant number of Polish soldiers and civilians refused to accept the Communist occupation of Poland, continuing their resistance to the local Communist authorities and Soviet troops. These people were the objects of the most brutal Communist repressions. Particular “cursed soldiers” were indeed involved in attacks on innocent civilians, but the predominant majority of the resistance members fought against Communist security functionaries.
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) is a Polish government institution in charge of the prosecution, archives, education and lustration, in relation to crimes against the Polish nation. The IPN investigates Nazi and Communist crimes committed between 1917 and 1990, documents its findings and disseminates them to the public. The Russian authorities often accuse the Polish and Ukrainian Institutes of National Remembrance of historical falsifications and anti-Russian activities.
See also our examination of the Kremlin historical revisionist against Poland and claims of similar cases on how Poland and Ukraine established institutions to lie about history, and the Polish Institute of National Remembrance is a gang of spongers.