Red shadow
| Titel: | Red shadow : a physician's memoir of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland, 1944-1956 / by Zygmunt Klukowski. Translated by George Klukowski.... Ed. by George Klukowski |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland, 1997 |
| Umfang: | VII, 181 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 0786403284 |
On July 26, 1944, Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski's hometown of Szczebrzeszyn in Eastern Poland was liberated from the Germans by Soviet troops. Only a few days later, however, Dr. Klukowski realized that the occupation had continued. Only the oppressor had changed.Throughout the Soviet occupation, Dr. Klukowski maintained a meticulous secret diary, detailing the atrocities of the Soviet troops and the common everyday life of the Polish citizens under occupation. He chronicles his own part in the struggle, the execution of his son Tadeusz for antigovernment activities, and his own 10 year prison sentence at the age of 67. This insider's history of post-World War II Poland is a vivid reminder of the strong will of the Polish people in the face of a brutal occupation.
