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Navy Captain Stanisław Mieszkowski (1903-1952): A Victim of Soviet Repressions in 1939-1956
Abstract
The Stalinist period is one of the most dramatic chapters of the history of Polish Navy. In this time, some seamen who in the opinion of Władysław Sikorski made their golden imprint on Poland’s history paid the highest price for their loyalty to her values: humiliation, imprisonment, or even death. One of the tragic victims of Stalinist repressions was Navy Captain Stanisław Mieszkowski, a young volunteer soldier in the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921) and Defender of the Coast (1939), and one of the most distinguished officers after World War II. In 1945-1950 he filled the posts of, among others, Commander of the Port of Kołobrzeg, Commander of the Minesweeper Fleet, Commandant of the Naval Academy, Chief of Staff of the Polish Navy, and Fleet Commander. This remarkable office, utterly given to the white and red ensign, arrested on 20 October 1950 by officers of the Main Directorate of Naval Information on false charges of espionage, was sentenced to death by the Supreme Military Court. He was executed on 16 December 1952 in the prison in Rakowiecka Street, Warsaw. The life of Captain Stanisław Mieszkowski is a remarkable exemplification of the history of officers of the Navy of the Second Polish Republic in the Stalinist era.
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Navy of Second Polish Republic, Navy Captain Stanisław Mieszkowski, StalinismDetails
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