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Leaders of Bezpieka (Security Force) in Inowrocław in 1945–1965
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(13) (2015), pages: 257-321
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
The topic regarding the personnel of security offices in small and medium-sized localities is rarely discussed by historians investigating the period of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL). On the one hand the personnel of the security apparatus was selected by using suitable verification, while on the other in an atmosphere of „revolutionary transitions” it was impossible to avoid the inflow of people who should not be appointed to any kind of position in any type of political system. Besides officers who were not entirely familiar with the nature of the tasks of the Public Security Office and delegated there by an order of the Polish Labour Party and their Soviet comrades, it included quite a large group of careerists, semi-illiterates, deviants or common offenders. In the twenty-year post-war period the city of Inowrocław was a classic example of this kind of pathology.
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