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Lieutenant-Colonel Czesław Kaczmarz. Career model of the officer of the Sudeten Brigade of Border Guard Troops who was 'distinguished in consolidating people's power'
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(17) (2019), pages: 333-346
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
Czesław Kaczmarz spent his almost entire 40-year service in special organisations, initially at the Security Office and then at the reconnaissance of Border Guard Troops. He participated in their activity using the chance of social promotion. He combined his day job with an activity at the Polish Workers’ Party (Polska Partia Robotnicza or PPR), then at the Polish United Workers’ Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza or PZPR), and at social organisations. His career was a ‘model’ path to promotion shared with many reconnaissance officers of Border Guard Troops. Adequate social background, early affiliation and involvement in the activities of the Communist Party constituted the basis for admission to this service. Appropriate political shaping such as indisputable devotion to communist ideals, and a lack of independent thinking and reflection were also required. Kaczmarz was one of the tiny cogs in the communist repression system, who helped to build that system and then implement it in the Sudeten Brigade of Border Guard Troops.
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