Florian Siwicki
Florian Siwicki was a Polish career military officer, diplomat and a communist politician, as well as a General of the Polish Army.
Siwicki was born in uck, eastern Poland, in 1925 to middleclass parents of peasant origin who worked in the civil service. He joined the Polish Workers Party in 1942 and the Gwardia Ludowa as an ordinary rifleman and mortarman in 1943. He was an NKVD operative and operated behind German frontlines to organize mortar and antiTank platoons among the Gwardia Ludowa. Since 1944 he joined the new Armia Ludowa and underwent training in the Soviet Union. He participated in the Soviet offensives in the Eastern Front as a soldier in the Armia Ludowa, in early 1945 aftermonths officer training in the USSR he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the newly created Peoples Army of Poland and commanded infantry platoons and companies in the East Pomeranian Offensive and the Prague Offensive. After the war, he resumed his normal military career as an infantry officer while continuing his political career as a member and official of the Polish United Workers Party and an NKVD operative. He became a
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