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The text presents the professional career of Kazimierz Jaskot, the first rector of the University of Szczecin. It presents the background of social processes that took place in the People’s Republic of Poland with the particular attention to years 1982–1989 – the period when Kazimierz Jaskot was the Rector of the Pedagogical College and the and co-organizer of the University of Szczecin, and from the academic year 1985/86 – the first rector of the university. As he operated in specific conditions, one may ask the question of whether and how he used, in the interests of science and higher education, his position in the circle of the political and administrative decision-makers of that time. Author of the text in the years 1975–2007 was the head of the National Archives in Szczecin and at that time, while operating within the scientific community, he knew the characters mentioned within the text.