Ksawery Błasiak
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Ksawery Błasiak (born 1900, died August 1, 1966 in London) was a lieutenant of the Polish Army, of the Home Army and the anti-communist underground
Cursed soldiers
The cursed soldiers is a name applied to a variety of Polish resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and afterwards. Created by some members of the Polish Secret State, these clandestine organizations continued their armed struggle against the Stalinist government of Poland...

 WiN.

Between 1930 and 1939 he was in the command of the Warsaw garrison. During the invasion of Poland he took part in defense of Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. Between 1939 and 1945 he served as a leader of the Home Army in Rzeszów
Rzeszów
Rzeszów is a city in southeastern Poland with a population of 179,455 in 2010. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River, in the heartland of the Sandomierska Valley...

 region. 1945-1945 he commanded the Third Brigade of the anti-communist WiN in the Bieszczady region. On the 12th of June, 1946, he engaged in battle a large regiment of the UB
Ub
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 and NKVD
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....

 in which his group was dispersed. He himself managed to escape to England afterward, through the Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

, Hungary, Italy and France. He died in 1966 in London.

According to the documents of the Institute of National Remembrance
Institute of National Remembrance
Institute of National Remembrance — Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation is a Polish government-affiliated research institute with lustration prerogatives and prosecution powers founded by specific legislation. It specialises in the legal and historical sciences and...

 from December 1945 he was the adjutant
Adjutant
Adjutant is a military rank or appointment. In some armies, including most English-speaking ones, it is an officer who assists a more senior officer, while in other armies, especially Francophone ones, it is an NCO , normally corresponding roughly to a Staff Sergeant or Warrant Officer.An Adjutant...

 of Captain Stanisław Sojczyński ("Warszyc"), commander of the KWP
Konspiracyjne Wojsko Polskie
Konspiracyjne Wojsko Polskie was a Polish paramilitary organization, which existed from April 1945 to as late as 1954, whose purpose was to fight Communist-controlled government of Poland as well as the NKVD...

anti-communist paramilitary partisans.
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