Abstract
In 1944-45 as a result of Soviet military victories the German occupation of Polish lands ended. The Red Army, which also included NKVD and AC Smiersz counterintelligence units, did not restore independence. The eastern part of Poland was again incorporated into the Soviet Union, and on the remaining territory, enlarged by a part of German lands, Stalin created a dependent communist People’s Poland. To this end, the Red Army and Soviet police formations carried out huge repressive actions against the Polish population, especially against the independence underground with the Home Army at the forefront. The symbol of this repression was, among others, the fate of the leading military leaders of the Polish underground: General Leopold Okulicki murdered in December 1946 in Moscow and General August Fieldorf, who was imprisoned in NKVD camps for over two and a half years and was murdered by the Polish communists in February 1953. Also a leading Polish civilian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Polish government Jan Jankowski was abducted by NKVD officers commanded by Ivan Sierov from Warsaw in March 1945, he died in a Soviet prison in 1953.
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