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Destruction of materials of the Security Service between 1989 and 1990 (with particular reference to documentation regarding "Solidarity") in the province of Piotrków. Exemplification of the course of the procedure and attempts to draw legal consequences against its organizers and contractors at the provincial and ministerial levels
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(16) (2018), pages: 437-468
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
Between 1989–1990 there has been a process of mass destruction of materials produced by the Security Service, especially regarding the Catholic Church and the political opposition in the People’s Republic of Poland. The size of the ravages made in the security archives is difficult to estimate to this day, but there is no doubt that they were the result of a nationwide action carried out on the orders of people from the top management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1990 at the request of the deputy head of the Office of State Protection Andrzej Milczanowski, the Invastigative Office of the Ministry of the Interior Affairs initiated proceeding aimed at clarifying the circumstances of the practice of blurring the traces of Security Services’ activities in the province of Piotrków. The collected material and prosecutors’ activities led to the accusation against Deputy Minister of the Third Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Krzysztof Majchrowski and Director of the IV Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Tadeusz Szczygieł. The trail that took place between 1993 and 1996 before the District Court and the Provincial Court in Piotrków Trybunalski did not lead to punishing the accused and the proceedings against them were discontinued. The specific weakness of the institution of justice makes the right to formulate the thesis that there is no interest in punishing the persons responsible for organizing, supervising and conducting the described procedure.
Keywords
Security Service • Ministry of Internal Affairs • The Sejm Extraordinary Committee to Investigate the Activities of the Ministry of the Interior • destruction of files • “slimming” of files • archival materials • the Piotrków Trybunalski Region • “Solidarity” Służba Bezpieczeństwa • Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych • Sejmowa Komisja Nadzwyczajna do Zbadania Działalności MSW • niszczenie akt • „odchudzanie” teczek • materiały archiwalne • województwo piotrkowskie • NSZZ „Solidarność”
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