[WAŃKOWICZ Melchior] A short story about the Belgorod regiment. Told by a former soldier of the same regiment. Minsk Litewski [1917].

[WAŃKOWICZ Melchior] A short story about the Belgorod regiment. Told by a former soldier of the same regiment. Minsk Litewski. 1917.

Format:13,5x18,5cm. Pages:10. unsealed.

Excerpt:"... So it went on for some time. Rękawek, who was supposed to take the wagon with clothes and shoes to Kharkov, stole it on the way, sold it and fled to no one knows where, but Waltz and Jackiewicz continued to spin the regiment and had already become quite friendly with the Russians. They even called themselves "the first revolutionary Polish regiment" and, following its example, decided to form revolutionary battalions and rotas everywhere. As you can see, it wasn't enough for them to smash vodka warehouses here in Russia, they still intended to enter Poland with the Bolshevik order in huge bands. Surely Mr. Jackiewicz and Mr. Wale already saw themselves as whole generals, who will steal Poland by the handful, not like the stupid Rękawek, who stole a wagon and ran away. And our poor soldier brothers, who still remained in that regiment, were still being mulled over with unheard-of tales, how soldiers in the Polish corps are tortured and tortured, and how only Russian Bolsheviks can be their brothers, and that soldier who went to the Polish ranks is no longer a compatriot and no longer a brother, but a bourgeois...".

From the collection of Stanislaw bar. DANGEL.

Stanislaw Roman Dangel a.k.a. "Salisch" [1891 Kutno - 1942 Warsaw] - co-founder of the Society of Borderland Guards, member of the "Znak" organization, member of the Supreme Committee of the Polish Confederation in 1919. He passed his high school exams in 1910 as an extern in the Russian 6th Gymnasium. He studied philosophy from the autumn of that year, first at the Jagiellonian University, and from 1911 at the University of Berlin and from 1913 at the University of Lviv. He was prevented from completing his studies and obtaining a doctorate by the outbreak of war. He stayed in Minsk-Litovsk, was in Warsaw for a very short time in 1915 and from 1916 was again in Minsk-Litovsk, where he first worked for the Russian Red Cross, and from 1917 organized the education and press department in the Union of Military Poles of the Western Front. On behalf of the command of the First Polish Corps in the East, he took over the political leadership of the Polish military action in the Minsk area in 1918, while also serving as vice-chairman of the Department for the Care of Monuments at the Central Civic Committee in Minsk. During World War II, he was a leader of the "Znak" group, which was transformed into the Union of National Revival in 1942. On October 26, 1942 he was arrested in his apartment and on the same day murdered during the investigation at the Gestapo headquarters in Szucha Avenue. His symbolic grave is located in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.