Bolesław Piasecki
Polish politician (1915-1979)
Bolesław Bogdan Piasecki, alias Leon Całka, Wojciech z Królewca, Sablewski (18 February 1915 – 1 January 1979) was a Polish writer, politician and political theorist. During the war, he was active in the anti-German and anti-Soviet armed underground. Initially of national radical views, he became associated after the war with the ruling Polish communists and led a group of lay Catholics who collaborated with the communist regime.
In the Second Polish Republic he was one of the more prominent Polish nationalist politicians, playing an important role in the leadership of National Radical Camp. In 1934 he was interned in Bereza Kartuska Prison. After his release, he became the leader of the illegal, extreme right faction National-Radical Movement "Falanga". This organisation advocated "Catholic totalitarianism" and is considered by many to have been a fascist movement with ideological influences from anti-Semitism, Spanish Falangism, and Italian Fascism. Nevertheless Piasecki refused to cooperate with the occupation of Poland after the Nazi invasion of 1939.
During the Second World War he was a member of the Polish resistance, leading the grouping Confederation of the Nation (merged into the Armia Krajowa in 1943) and taking part in the fighting around Vilnius. He was imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1939, and after his release fought with the Home Army in the Warsaw Uprising.
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