Ksiądz Jerzy Popiełuszko
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(FILES) - Picture dated 1980 of Polish Jerzy Popieluszko, chaplain of the Solidarity democracy movement who was kidnapped, strangled and drowned, 19 October 1984 by a communist SB security police commando led by Grzegorz Piotrowski. Piotrowski, a former officer convicted of the murder of the priest, was released 16 August 2001 after serving a 15-year sentence, a prison spokesman said. AFP PHOTO
Jerzy Popieluszko, a Catholic priest associated with the Solidarity union. He was murdered by the Soviet operated communist internal intelligence agency, SB.
Popieluszko was the first sent to strikers in the Warsaw Steelworks. His sermons interwove spiritual exhortations with political messages were routinely broadcasted by Radio Free Europe. SB tried to intimidate him with no results.
He was kidnapped, beaten and murdered on October 19, 1984. His body was dumped into the Vistula Water Reservoir near Wloclawek fand was recovered almost 2 weeks later.
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1970-01-01
EAST NEWS
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