Stanisław Radkiewicz

Who was Stanisław Radkiewicz?

Stanisław Radkiewicz was a Polish communist activist with Soviet citizenship, member of the pre-war Communist Party of Poland and of the post-war Polish United Workers' Party. As head of the Polish communist secret police between 1944 and 1954 he was one of the chief organizers of Stalinist terror in Poland in those years.

He also served as a political commissar and was made a Divisional General in Communist Poland.

Unlike some other individuals responsible for the Stalinist terror in the 1940s and 1950s, Radkiewicz was never held responsible for his crimes, although in 1956, after the Poznań protests and his official "self-critique" he was removed from his post as Minister of Public Security and made the Minister of State Agricultural Farms.