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The Role and operation of the securiry apparatus in the Lithuanian minority (1945–1975)
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(14) (2016), pages: 439-458
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
After the Second World War, all of the social and environmental groups in Poland that were active before the war came under the interest of security apparatus. It also included national minorities, like Lithuanian minority which ended up in the new frontiers of the Polish state. According to the work of the Security Service created in the 80s, the operational activities carried out for it were mainly due to: the interest in the emigrant nationalist centres of the Lithuanian minority in Poland, treating their territory as a kind of springboard for activities directed against the USSR, and the trend to cooperate with emigration centres of other nations. An important element in all of the activities was not allowing the Lithuanian Socio-Cultural Society to, as described, to have nationalist goals. Operational activities were impossible with the use of agents that were part of such a distinctive nation both in terms of language and culture also with members being close to each other. Like in other cases getting someone recruited didn’t guarantee the cooperation from their behalf.
Keywords
agency • security apparatus • Lithuanians • nationalists agentura • aparat bezpieczeństwa • Litwini • nacjonaliści
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