After other major Polish cities, Warsaw is now the venue of an exhibition featuring the faces and biograms of the functionaries of Poland’s former communist security service.
Joanna Najfeld reports
The Faces of the Communist Security 1944-1990 pictures 120 communist functionaries responsible for communist times repression on the Polish society. Next to large scale photographs and biographic information, historical documents are presented giving background information about Poland’s painful reality of the past.
A small part of the display is devoted to the victims of most cruel communist crimes. Agnieszka Rudziñska, one of the organizers:
“The first picture shows soldiers of the Polish war time resistance movement after they had been executed. Their bodies are seated against a wall. The second picture features general Fieldorf, imprisoned and killed by the communist security, the third picture is of Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko, brutally murdered by communist secret police in the 1980s, and there is also a picture of a wounded worker from the massacre in the Wujek coal mine. They are all victims of the communist security.”
Like in other places where it was displayed, also in Warsaw, the exhibition draws a lot of attention from passers-by:
“My father is one of the victims. He was in prison for 4 and a half years. People should see these pictures.””I still remember some of these people. It was not very long ago. Many of these are from the Soviet Union. So far we haven’t had a chance to learn about them in such details.”
“It’s and interesting presentation of people who for many years decided about the life and sometimes also the death of other people.”
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