PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński, on the day of the nationwide Independence Day of the People’s Movement, thanked the heroes of the Polish countryside in a special letter for their contribution to our contemporary freedom, for their commitment and dedication.
The President of Law and Justice Jarosław Kaczyński sent a special letter to the participants of the national People’s Movement Independence Day celebration in Stara Błotnica (Mazowieckie County). The letter was read by the deputy head of the PiS club, Marek Suski.
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History of the Popular Movement
Today, at the foot of the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Consolation in the Shrine in Stara Błotnica, on the Feast of the Independence Movement, we pray for, honor and remember the sons and daughters of rural Poland, who fought for our freedom for several years and in different ways. This year we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the creation of independent organizations that shaped the ideological landscape of entrepreneurship and opposition before August: the Lublin Region Peasant Self-Defense Committee, the Grójec Region Peasant Self-Defense Committee, the Temporary Committee of the Independent Farmers’ Union or Radom Boeren’s self-defense committee
– wrote the president of PiS. He recalled that a year later the People’s Thought Center was founded, the Believers’ Self-Defense Committees were active, and an independent agricultural press appeared.
Later came the times of the first “Solidarity”, characterized by an intense struggle for the legalization of an independent peasant union representation, which led from a strike in Ustrzyki, Rzeszów to something unprecedented for the time – the registration of NSZZ “Solidarność” of Individual Farmers ie a trade union that collects class enemies, because the communist authorities regarded the peasants who managed their land as such. Then there was the martial law conspiracy
Jaroslaw Kaczynski remembered.
He noted that time passes inexorably and that there are no longer many notable figures of that era among the living. He mentioned a few: Michał, Roman and Piotr Bartoszcze, Piotr Baumgart, Henryk Bąk, Stanisław Chrobak, Witold Hatka, Stanisław Janisz, Jan Kozłowski, Janusz Rożek, Józef Teliga, Roman Wierzbicki. The president of PiS also pointed out the role priests played in the struggle for the dignity and rights of the Polish countryside:
Let the symbol of this struggle (…) be the struggle of Father Czesław Sadłowski.
Our grateful thoughts embrace all those who have struggled with invaders, invaders and occupiers throughout the ages. This struggle of the Polish people has a centuries-old tradition
he stressed. He remembered Bartosz Głowacki and the Bartosz teams, the call of Wincenty Witos during the 1920 war, which was answered by the Polish countryside, soldiers of the peasant battalions and Stanisław Mikołajczyk.
Remembering heroes
Today we thank the heroes of the Polish countryside for their contribution to our freedom today. We express our undying gratitude for their hard work and dedication, for everything they have done in defense of the Polish land in their long-standing efforts for a better future for the rural population and in the struggle for independence. Their homeland will never forget. It is thanks to all of them that St. John Paul II could say of the Polish countryside that it is a strong pillar on which national identity is based
– wrote Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
He thanked all the people and institutions who cherish the memory of the participation of the Polish countryside in the struggle for freedom and independence, and for the beautiful patterns of love for fatherland and fatherland contained therein.
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Source: wPolityce