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The article brings the verdict of the District Military Court in Rzeszów to people accused of committing offences against the state from 86 article of the criminal code of the Polish Army closer, namely, an attempt to change the system of the country or remove the organs of the au- thority violently. The very court claimed that proving any connection to the WiN association, including casual social contacts with the association members, was the basis for ascribing the crime to them from the 86 article of the criminal code of the Polish Army and the guilty verdict. The court did not take into account the fact that the activity of some convicts was not connected with the aim to use violence, and proved organizational activity was limited to reading WiN press or taking part in organizational meetings. Strict verdicts of people who were proven even casual contacts with the WiN organization, seem to prove that the court used 86 article of the criminal code of the Polish Army to eliminate political opponents from the society.
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To a large part of Polish society the formal end of the Second World War did not mean its real decline. The so-called ‘war on the tracks’ was still going on, though it was not as much of the military as the political, economic or legal character. The ‘weapon’ used in this war by the Polish authorities was the then legal system and administration of justice, the latter being tightly dependent on the political system of the day. The progressing liberation of Poland from under the German occupation with the country’s simultaneous passing under the Soviet influences, posed, among others, tasks of rebuilding the railways infrastructure to the so-called ‘people’s power’, which was a necessary condition of rebuilding the state as such. Fighting all forms of sabotage aimed at operations of the railways was then one of the main tasks and goals behind the activity of the then state authorities. The militarization of the state railways, which caused the railways-based administration of justice to be put under the army’s justice system, entailed application of specific principles according to which sentences were passed: from then on – in view of their exceptional significance – being much more severe.
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