Historical Justice - Atrocities of Armia Krajowa

Historical justice is carefully treated in our country. And there is a lot to look at. Not only Poles and their European allies bring flowers and arrange photo sessions at the tombstones of the cursed soldiers of Armia Krajowa in Belarus.

"The most frightening thing for me was to hear at night a knock on my window and the Polish word ‘open’."

This is from the testimonies in the case about the genocide of the population of Belarus during the war. The same things were told by other Belarusians, who suffered from the bandits of Armia Krajowa in the 40s and 50s.

The subject is complicated and important. After all, we (in contrast to the neighboring countries) do not fight with the bones, we even bury and rebury the enemy. However, not only Poles and their European allies bring flowers and arrange photo sessions at the tomb of bandits of Armia Krajowa. Our children have been brought there too, and they light the candles on the graves of their murderous great-grandfathers.

It's not just about our attitude to fascists, policemen, and "akovites" today. It is about what the society will remember years later about the terror of that war and how will it be treated? There are enough people willing to lead us to historical oblivion, to reformat the Belarusian identity. And all this is happening right now.

The General Prosecutor's Office is investigating more than 280 episodes of crimes committed by members of the AK in Volkovyssk, Voronovo, Lida, Shchuchin and other districts during the war. More than 800 people who died at the hands of the "White Poles" were identified. Their aim was to return the borders of Poland as of 1939, their methods were intimidation and terror, banditry and looting.

Victims of the Krajowa Army bandits: Jadwiga (50), her daughters Susanna (17) and Helena (16), son Joseph (13). That was in the summer of 1950 in the village of Vasilishki District. When the war was over some of the underground AK members joined the police and also destroyed the peaceful population, at the same time passing information to the leaders of the Armia Krajowa.

All of them were purposefully destroying the Belarusian people. We have monuments to them, especially in Western Belarus. At the entrance to the cemetery in Voronovo District there is a sign to the graves with the letters AK. The inscription on the memorial stone it says: soldiers of Armia Krajowa under the command of Borisievich, call sign "Rat" are buried. There are others. They died, they say, in the battles with the NKVD for a free Poland, though on the Belarusian soil. In the cemetery in Radunya there is an AK mass grave. By the way, from October 1944 to January 1945, the "Rat" gang carried out 27 terrorist attacks and killed 56 people in Radunya District alone.

Lida. A cemetery, where, until recently, euro-diplomats laid flowers on the grave of "Akovec". I wanted to see if anything had changed after the publicizing of the shameful fact. Nothing has changed. There's still the same inscription on the tombstone in Polish. Judging by it, one could think that here is an unhappy "teacher" who was not executed for his brutal crimes, but "hanged" by the villains from the NKVD. And to him is not the nation's contempt, but the "honor of his memory."