Partisans

Describing his “Partisans” Pitynski said, that he dedicated this monument to all “Fighters for Freedom in the World”, and used Polish Partisans as an example.

I was creating ‘The Partisans’ in the United States, when Poland was changing, when the SB [Pol. abr. Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa – Eng., Polish secret police] was murdering priests, students, and workers. I was creating this monument thinking about them all, about those thousands of the bravest Sons and Daughters of the Polish Nation, who were the first to stand up to the Soviet communism. They were betrayed by world and forgotten by God – a choice they made themselves – in the forest units of: NOW, AK, WiN, NSZ. They fought bravely with NKVD, Soviet Red Army; and with Polish traitors from the UB, KBW, MO, ORMO, [with all] ‘consolidators of the people’s [communist] regime. They fought because they never reconciled to give up their freedom. [They were] hunted in the forests like wild beasts, they were tortured in the UB dungeons, they were abused with the vindictive pleasure [of their oppressors], they were murdered in the MO torture houses, were buried illicitly at night in the graves that are unknown to this day. It is for THEM, that I created this symbol of the Golgotha of Polish Heroes.

Photos taken in 1999

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