Stanisław Radkiewicz

Stanisław Radkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf ratˈkʲevit͡ʂ]; 19 January 1903 – 13 December 1987) was a Polish communist activist with Soviet citizenship, member of the pre-war Communist Party of Poland and of the post-war Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). As head of the Polish communist secret police (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa or UB) between 1944 and 1954 he was one of the chief organizers of Stalinist terror in Poland in those years. He also served as a political commissar and was made a Divisional General in Communist Poland.

Unlike some other individuals responsible for the Stalinist terror in the 1940s and 1950s, Radkiewicz was never held responsible for his crimes, although in 1956, after the Poznań protests and his official "self-critique" he was removed from his post as Minister of Public Security and made the Minister of State Agricultural Farms (PGRs).

Radkiewicz was born in the village of Rozmierki in the powiat of Kosów Poleski in the Polesie Voivodeship. He was the son of farmer Franciszek and Paulina née Lenczewska. He finished third grade. In 1915, together with his family he was deported by the retreating Tsarist army to Russia. During the Bolshevik Revolution he joined the Komsomol.

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