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Sketches for the Biography of Military Lawyers of the Polish Army, Former Top Ranking Soviet War Lawyers
Remembrance and Justice, Vol. 33 No. 1 (2019), pages: 356-369
Publication date: 2019-06-30
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Abstract
T he article presents the life history of six Polish military lawyers who served in the
Red Army or in the NKVD forces in the 1930s, were promoted to top ranking war
lawyers in 1936 (the equivalent to the former rank of colonel), and afterwards enlisted into the Polish Army. Based on evidence mainly from Russian archives, it was possible
to reconstruct the careers of these officers while on service in the armed forces of the
USRR. A collective picture was established thereon. There were doubts as to their pro -
fessional education since they completed many years of service in bodies related to the
repression system of the Soviet state and served the NKVD authorities during the great
purge (1937–1938). Although they were subject to various forms of repressions in 1938,
they received a guarantee for pursuing a policy in the interest of the USSR in Poland.
