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Officers of the Provicial Office of Public Security in Przasnysz in the service of the system in the years 1945–1956
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(16) (2018), pages: 177-196
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
The activity of the Provincial Office of Public Security in Przasnysz between 1945 and 1956 was marked by strong terror directed to the soldiers of the independence armed underground as well as civilians. Quite often, the ranks of Security Office were powered by irresponsible people who do not have key competences to work in such service. Often the basic advantage of the future officers was their physical strength and beyond the legal skills of operational work. This resulted in the violation of elementary rights and freedoms of citizens. Terror, the use of unlawful means of direct coercion during investigations and assassination of murders caused fear and open disapproval among the residents of the Przasnysz Poviat in relation to the “guardians of the system”. The irony was that the PUBP structures were organized in the building in which the German Gestapo operated during World War II. Throughout the life of witnesses of the first decade of communist rule in Przasnysz, the building at 4 Berka Joselewicza Street was associated with great fear and terror.
Keywords
Przasnysz • Office of Public Security • Security Service • crime Przasnysz • Urząd Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego • komunizm • bezpieka • zbrodnia
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