Marian Józef Januszajtis-Żegota (3 April 1889, Częstochowa

Czestochowa

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 - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells

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) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition

Austrian partition

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, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.

He was also organizer of the unsuccessful coup in 1919, general in the Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

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 and Polish Armed Forces in the West

Polish Armed Forces in the West

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, voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship

Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919-1939)

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 (1924-1926), and member of the Polish government in Exile

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He was arrested by NKVD

NKVD

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 on 27 October 1939 and imprisoned in Lwów and then in Moscow Lubyanka prison. After the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement

Sikorski-Mayski Agreement

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 of July 1941, he was released. After the war he stayed in exile in the United Kingdom, where he died in March 1973.

Honours and awards

• Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari (1921)
• Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• Cross of Independence
  Cross of Independence
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• Cross of Valour (four times)
• Officer's badge "Parasol"
• Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour (France)