Jan Krasicki

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Janek "Jan" Krasicki (18 September 1919 – 2 September 1943) was a Polish activist of the Communist youth movement and resistance fighter.

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Biography Krasicki was born in to the family of a prominent Polish lawyer and politician. After finishing his secondary education, he joined the Communist Party of Western Belarus towards and in 1937 he began studying law at the University of Warsaw. There he joined the Socialist Youth Organization "Życie", which was under the influence of the illegal Communist Party of Poland and the Communist Union of Polish Youth. He also established direct contacts with activists of the KPP. As a result of a fight with nationalist activists he was arrested and expelled from the University of Warsaw. After the Soviet occupation of Lviv, Krasicki was admitted to the Law Faculty of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv. He became the chairman of the Trade Union of Students and Academics of the Law Faculty and from 1940 he became a member of the Soviet Komsomol, where he worked closely with Soviet intelligence. After the outbreak of the German-Soviet war in June 1941, he was evacuated to the east together with the authorities of the Lviv Komsomol. In Moscow, he was selected for a group of Poles who were to be transferred to Poland to carry out sabotage tasks. He was…Citește mai mult

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Legacy Jan Krasicki was posthumously awarded the Golden Cross of Merit. Krasicki also became the patron of the Union of Socialist Youth, which established the Jan Krasicki Cross as its award. Throughout the existence of the Polish People's Republic, dozens of schools, parks and other establishment bore his name until 1990, after which most were renamed.