Historical calendar – the anniversary of the beginning of the process in the alleged “meat farm”. It was to distract Poles from the shortages of the socialist economy.
Today in our calendar we will look at the spheres of social engineering of Gomulkowska day – how authorities manipulated public opinion to cover their inability.
In the mid-1960s there was a crisis in the butcher shops and meat shops of the Polish People's Republic. All the employees were scrambling, stealing, and selling it to the left, taking and giving bribes. The same was actual in many another sectors of the socialist economy. The first secretary of PZPR Władysław Gomulku came up with the thought to blame the state of the economy for the conventional “conspiracy” and “enemy of the people”.
“All we gotta do is hang a fewer scandalists and the economical scandals will be over. - He was going to say Gomulka. The full show trial plan was developed. More than 500 people were arrested for a fictional affair. The main character in the process was the manager of Municipal Meat Trade Warsaw Prague Stanisław Wawrzedki. Apart from him, 4 directors of the socialized meat trade, the owner of a private butcher store and 4 managers of stores were besides charged.
With the KC PZPR, the composition of the first jury of defendants is agreed, as well as the form of the process to be conducted in an ad hoc mode. It allowed the fast ruling of the gallows and the exclusion of appeal procedures. The most crucial justice at the trial was Roman Kryże, the same 1 who issued the death conviction on Witold Pilecki and many another National Army heroes. It was him in the tide of black humor that the Warsaw lawyers said he had a private cemetery in Służewi. They repeated the poem: “The Judges of the Crimes? Prepare the crosses!’
Within a twelve months, over 500 people were arrested, almost 800 suspects were charged. Police and the D.A. interviewed all meat store managers in the capital (there were about 470). It turned out that 93 percent of them were giving bribes. 65 tons of meat was reportedly stolen in the production facilities in Służewiec in 2 years.
Three days after Wawrzedka was arrested, he confessed. He told investigators he took bribes from 120 store managers. Most of them besides went to jail.
On November 20, 1964, 4 another directors of Warsaw's commerce, 4 store managers and 1 private masquerade owner sat next to Wawrzecki on the bench. It was the first date of the trial. The press, radio, and tv reported on all trial.
Judicial reporter Barbara Seidler remembered from the courtroom a girl, a 12-year-old daughter of 1 of the defendants. Since the police wouldn't let children her age into the trial, the teenager would paint all day after school, change her dress, wear heels and sneak into the courtroom with a crowd. The writer was deliberately talking to the officers so that they wouldn't pay attention to a kid crossing the door.
In parallel with the trial, the media assault on Wawrzecki started. Journalists explained that it was drawn into criminal activity by the mob of pre-war food business owners. "The managers of Warsaw's meat shops were in the vast majority of erstwhile private massagers. People of a completely defined morality, governed by their own rights, mastered entirely by a powerful desire to enrich themselves. They created a powerful sieve that pulled out ruthless tentacles after each fresh director, each fresh controller.” It was written.
The papers besides revealed Wawrzecki's estate. "96 gold twenty-dollar coins, 2 gold ten-dollar coins, 7 gold five-rubbers, 14 gold bars with a full weight of 1.4 kg, 9 gold bracelets, a gold watch, 26 rings, including any with diamonds, 4 gold chains and gold medals, 2 gold crosses, 5 gold rings and 2 pairs of gold cufflinks, 135 1000 PLN in cash and 100 1000 PLN on the PKO book, yet a semi-million-dollar villa in Michałowice close Warsaw registered under the name of her aunt".
The D.A. requested him to die, as did the 2 another defendants. Roman Kryże, of course, ruled for Wawrzecki the death punishment and reported that there was no appeal against the sentence. In his message of reasons: "A ulcer to the body of a healthy society must be burned to the roots". another defendants were given life imprisonment or long prison.
It is said that justice Faustyn Wołek wanted to study a separatum vote on this decision. He was persuaded not to do so due to the fact that the conviction is to be symbolic, and later the Council of State will apply the law of grace. In fact, she didn't.
The conviction by hanging was executed in prison on Rakowiecka on the following day, November 21, 1964. Wawręcki believed to the end that he would avoid execution, due to the fact that an act of grace would come from the State Council. He was said to be completely grayed out in 1 night on death row.
The household had no right to a funeral, and the wife was misinformed about the burial site. After the sentence, she was additionally confiscated by all her assets. Bożena Wawrzedka, the widow, who then worked in the colacture of the Totka in Mirowska Hall, decided to dye her hair blonde so that no 1 would admit her. About the boy of Wawrzecki, Paul, teachers in the school corridor began to say “the boy of this thief.”
On a text basis: A meat scandal, which is death for meat.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.
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