Cursed soldiers
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The "cursed soldiers" or "indomitable soldiers" were a heterogeneous array of anti-Soviet and anti-communist resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and in its aftermath by mem
"Cursed soldiers" of Polish anti-communist underground, June 1947. From left: Henryk Wybranowski - pseudonym "Tarzan" (killed Nov. 1948) Edward Taraszkiewicz - "Żelazny" (killed Oct. 1951) Mieczysław Małecki - "Sokół" (killed Nov. 1947) Stanisław Pakuła - "Krzewina"
Monument to the Armia Krajowa in Sopot, Poland
"The Giant and the Reactionary Spittle-Covered Dwarf". A postwar Polish communist propaganda poster showing a soldier of the Polish People's Army striding over a partisan of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army).
Witold Pilecki ("Witold")
Józef Franczak
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Józef Franczak was a soldier of the Polish Army, Armia Krajowa World War II resistance, and last of the cursed soldiers – members of the militant anti-communist resistance in Poland. He used codenames
Cursed soldiers
…exist in the late 1950s, as they were hunted down by agents of the Ministry of Public Security and the Soviet NKVD. The last known "cursed soldier", Józef Franczak, was killed in a 1963 ambush. The best-known Polish anti-communist resistance organisations operating in Stalinist-era Poland included Freedom and…
Józef Franczak as corporal of Military Police in Poland before 1939
Józef Franczak's monument in Piaski, Poland, 2008
Józef Franczak's grave on cemetery in Piaski, Poland, 2008