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Michał Rola-Żymierski

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W 1927 roku wyszły na światło dzienne malwersacje, jakich Żymierski dokonał w okresie sprawowania funkcji ministerialnej. Podczas procesu udowodniono mu popełnienie nadużyć i przyjęcie korzyści majątkowych. Niezawisły sąd skazał go prawomocnie na degradację, wydalenie z wojska i 5 lat więzienia.
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Translation: "In 1927, the embezzlement that Żymierski made during his ministerial office came to light. During the trial, he was found to have committed abuses and accepted financial benefits. An independent court sentenced him to final degradation, expulsion and 5 years in prison."
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as the Deputy Chief of Administration of the Polish Army. Żymierski was appointed deputy head of the Army Administration for Armaments, where he was responsible for finances and purchases of military equipment at the Ministry of Military Affairs.
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On June 15, 1945, when the controversy over establishing the border with Czechoslovakia intensified, Żymierski, replacing the absent prime minister, issued an ultimatum to the Czechoslovak side. After its rejection, Polish troops entered
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on 1989, city councils of Bielsko-Biała, Kraków, Włocławek, Płock and Chełm passed resolutions that declared the withdrawal of Żymierski's honorary citizenship because of his role in implementing the communist regime in Poland.
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charged him with bribery and embezzlement. Following an official investigation, he was court-martialled and demoted to private first class, expelled from the army and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Alojzy Zielecki (2006). "Polish independence movement in Sanok and the region against the backdrop of national events at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries".
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later claimed that accusing Żymierski of corruption was a kind of political revenge on the part of Józef Piłsudski and was supposed to indirectly discredit
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in May 1918, he served in command positions in the Polish Military Organization in Russia. He was the commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment in the
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He died in Warsaw on 15 October 1989 and was the last person to hold the rank of Marshal of Poland. He was buried with full military honors at
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of 1917, he retired from the Austro-Hungarian army with rank of lieutenant colonel and returned to Kraków, where he graduated from the
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back to the rank of General and became the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army fighting alongside the Soviet Union (the
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at the onset of World War II, and soon resumed his clandestine work for the NKVD (as revealed first by
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following his promotion to the rank of colonel. After the corps was disarmed by the Germans after the
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in 1910, but was drafted a year later. In the years 1911–1912, he served compulsory service in the
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and non-communist politicians, as well as for the deployment of the Polish Army against Poland's
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Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
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After the end of Stalinism in Poland, he held various posts, including deputy head of the
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Polacy w II wojnie światowej: kim byli, co robili. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rytm"
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Recipients of the Medal of the 40th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland
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Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
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Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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in Warsaw. Żymierski's grave was desecrated twice by unknown perpetrators.
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Medal "For Participation in the Fights in Defense of the People's Power"
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Upon his release in 1931, Żymierski went to France. He was recruited by
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and became a well-paid secret agent delivering information about the
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Members of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party
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Niechciani honorowi obywatele. Miasta zmagają się z przeszłością
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Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (France)
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Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (France)
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Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class
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Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1925)
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Gold Medal "For Merit for the National Defense League"
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Żymierski fought in the 124:Polish government-in-exile 2140: 2134:Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz 2054: 2003: 1895: 1886: 1213:(No. 17 – 9 August 1945) 996:, four times (1921,1922) 859:Powązki Military Cemetery 660:Communist Party of Poland 532:4th Polish Rifle Division 524:Polish II Corps in Russia 385: 363: 353: 343: 333: 285: 243: 238: 226: 204:Communist Party of Poland 199: 179: 152: 147: 143: 131: 112: 100: 78: 67: 60: 56: 44: 32: 2184:Polish Austro-Hungarians 1548:communist rule in Poland 1546:. Following the fall of 1159:Medal of Ludwik Waryński 798:Freedom and Independence 426:Rola-Żymierski was born 280:Polish People's Republic 194:Polish People's Republic 2204:Politicide perpetrators 2174:Politicians from Kraków 1638:. 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Index

Michał Żymierski
Marshal

Minister of National Defence
Edward Osóbka-Morawski
Józef Cyrankiewicz
Bolesław Bierut
Marian Kukiel
Polish government-in-exile
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Kraków
Austria-Hungary
Warsaw
Polish People's Republic
Communist Party of Poland
Polish Workers' Party
Polish United Workers' Party

Austria-Hungary
Second Polish Republic
Polish People's Republic
Austro-Hungarian Army
Polish Legions
Polish Army
People's Guard
People's Army
People's Army of Poland
Marshal of Poland
Gwardia Ludowa
World War I

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