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Article shows youth paramilitary organisations activities and structure. The pre-Great War organisations and their role for regaining independence is shown, as well as official forming of academic military units fighting for Polish independence. Then the structure and tasks of organisations at that time are showed and compared with their role and ideas during the communist period. Mainly author focus on 21st century and present model of youth paramilitary organisations functioning and their role for the society – on the example of Legia Akademicka form Lublin.