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Our today’s interviewee:
Jerzy Pruszyński (born 1932), former prisoner of Jaworzno, a communist penitentiary for young criminals. At the age of 15 he moved from his family region of Podlasie to Warsaw and went to school. He didn’t have a family in the capital, so he made friends with his schoolmates. Everyone was against the communist authorities and were anticipating the outbreak of the third world war. One day Jerzy Pruszyński found a Parabellum-Pistole in the ruins of a tenement building in the Solec district of Warsaw. Pruszyński and his friends began to search the ruins postwar Warsaw and found a lot of weapons. They established an organization called the “Warsaw Eaglets”, Pruszyński took an oath and took on the pseudonym “Młot” [Hammer]. They disseminated propaganda, published pamphlets, painted anti-communist slogans on the city walls and tried to destroy portraits od communist leaders. In case of war they were planning to keep order in the city, so they needed weapons. A failed attempt at disarming a guard led to their arrest. Pruszyński was sent to the Security Office headquarters at Cyryla i Metodego Street in the Praga district of Warsaw, where he was subjected to a brutal interrogation and repeatedly beaten. On 23 December 1950, the Warsaw District Military Court sentenced him a 10-year prison sentence.
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