Abstract
ABSTRACT Throughout the period of communist rule in Poland, the problem of suicide within the ranks of the Polish armed forces was treated as an embarrassing secret. Official ideology considered this problem as out of step with the ‘socialist morality’ of the army, a contrast to the past horrors of the so-called ‘Prussian drill’. The problem of suicide in the army was well-known during the Stalinist period, but military institutions only started to investigate its causes in the early 1960s. These investigations were hampered by the many dysfunctional tendencies in the organizational culture of the Polish army at this time, and they were ultimately incapable of solving the problem.
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