When the Soviet ghouls
Haunted their land
“Cursed soldiers”
Set off on a crusade
Father Forest
Let them into
The darkness of its heart
Though every tree whispered
“You’re already doomed to die.”
Soon there was more beast in their eyes
Than in the merciless mountains which
Turned into their killing ground
Showed no mercy to the red zombies
Tore them apart
Even if they caught one
The Kremlin fiends and their local thugs
Called them bandits
“Cursed soldiers”
Lived like wolves
Hunted day and night
Hiding like ghosts
In the deepest caverns of the night
Went deeper into black
Deeper into wild
But still retained the
Gladiators’ charm
Young poet’s heart
Filled with dreams and stars
Grew inseparably into
The cold steel of his gun
Hate pulled the trigger
Whether it was
A man, woman or child
She was 17
When the “red monsters”
Pulled her nails out
Put out cigarettes
On her lips
Made to caress
The petals of the kiss
But in the afterlife
“Tell my grandma
They didn’t break me.”
Her last secret message
From the hell of a communist
Prison still makes me proud
That she was an angel
From my tribe
She refused a blindfold
When the firing squad
Spat in her face
Calling her a “stupid cunt”
The storm of bullets
Pulled her spirit
Into the strange silence
Of a distant peaceful light
“Cursed soldiers”
Massacred one by one
Just like it had been
Written in the stars
Buried like shot
Wolves
In the sleazy pits of pigpens.
They were to be forgotten
But they rose like Phoenix
from the ashes and
Still run freely like wolves in the mists of
Akashic records
Up above the highest skies
There have always been rebels
On far away planets and ancient times
‘Cause the spirit of freedom is like the fire of
The rising sun
Dedicated to Danuta Siedzikówna nickname “Inka” – 17-year-old Polish “cursed soldier” killed by communists on 28.08.1946
The “Cursed soldiers” (also known as “doomed soldiers”, “accursed soldiers” or “damned soldiers”; Polish: Żołnierze wyklęci) is a term applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and its aftermath by some members of the Polish Underground State. These clandestine organisations continued their armed struggle against the communist government of Poland well into the 1950s. The guerrilla warfare included an array of military attacks launched against the communist regime’s prisons and state security offices, detention facilities for political prisoners and concentration camps that were set up across the country. Most of the Polish anti-communist groups ceased to exist in the late 1940s or 1950s, hunted down by agents of the Ministry of Public Security and Soviet NKVD assassination squads. However, the last known ‘cursed soldier’, Józef Franczak, was killed in an ambush as late as 1963, almost 20 years after the Soviet take-over of Poland.
19.03.2018,
Bialystok city, Poland
