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„Prowokacja” w komitecie powiatowym Polskiej Partii Robotniczej w Siedlcach

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Czarnota T.

Res Historica

2012

issue 33

171-203

In December 1945, First Secretary of the District Committee of the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR) in Siedlce reported to the Provincial Committee about the uncovering of “provocation”. The former technical secretary (head of the administrative office) of this district committee, Ryszard Zakrzewski, while he performed this function, maintained regular contact with the underground independence movement and passed them information: party documents. On 8 December 1945 officers from the District Office for Public Security (PUBP) detained him. In 1943-1944 R. Zakrzewski was a soldier of the Home Army (AK, Armia Krajowa), a member of Kedyw (Home Army’s Directorate for Subversion) and participant in the action “Burza” (Storm). The circumstances of his joining the PPR were unclear. It is possible that he arranged this with his AK commander in order to infiltrate the party structures. He started active cooperation with the underground organizations in the field of information and intelligence in 1945, which coincided more or less with his appointment to the post of technical secretary. At that time he most probably took part in subversive and expropriation actions carried out by the underground. After being arrested by accident (he started a row in a shop, whose owner reported on him) he was interrogated at the PUBP (Public Security Office). The inquiry revealed his intelligence work for the underground and other acts (inter alia the alleged complicity in the killing of two men and forging a PPR identity card), for which he was held criminally responsible. At the same time (1946) he was expelled from the party as an “agent provocateur”. After a two-and-half-year investigation conducted by the Military Prosecutor for the Lublin Region, in 1948 the Military Regional Court in Lublin sentenced him to 12 years of imprisonment and the loss of public rights and civil rights for five years. He served the prison terms successively in Siedlce, Rawicz, Piechcin and Potulice. In February 1954 his health seriously deteriorated and he was granted permission to start treatment and a prison leave. In September that year the court took into account his health condition and his metamorphosis (he declared a wish to actively participate in building “People’s” Poland) and, after almost nine years in prison, it released him on parole. After he left prison he probably went to the Wrocław province to follow his wife. His subsequent fate is not known.

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„Prowokacja” w komitecie powiatowym Polskiej Partii Robotniczej w Siedlcach