IF YOU NEED INDIVIDUAL STAMPS RATHER THAN THE WHOLE SET PLEASE WRITE TO ME AND I WILL LIST THEM SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY.
THIS PROPAGANDA STAMP SET WAS ISSUED BY THE POLISH UNDERGROUND SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AS A DIVERSIFICATION STATEMENT AGAINST MARTIAL LAW WHICH HAD BEEN DECLARED BY THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES IN POLAND. IT IS A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM . THE UNDERGROUND MEMBERS WHO ISSUED THIS STAMP RISKED A LOT, BECAUSE IF CAUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A UNIQUE PIECE OF HISTORY. IT IS A MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS HISTORIAN AND COLLECTOR OF THIS PERIOD AND WILL MAKE AN INTERESTING ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced the introduction of martial law in a speech first broadcast on radio and television at 6:00 am on December 13, 1981. In order to isolate members of the opposition (from the Solidarity movement), 52 internment centers were created. A total of 10,132 internment orders were issued against 9,736 people during the period of martial law.
Andrzej Eugeniusz Slowik (b. 30 August 1949 in Lodz) - a Polish Solidarity activist, dissident during the Communist period, Deputy Minister of Labour.
Biography
In 1966 he graduated from a vocational school bakery. He worked in a clothing factory (to 1973) and as a driver up to 1981. From 1977 to 1981, he was a member of theCommunist Party.
In 1980, during the August events he took part in a strike in his workplace. In September of the same year he joined Solidarity and presided over the MKZ Earth Lodz region, and then the board of NSZZ "S" represented the association at the I National Congress of Delegates in Gdansk, where he was elected to the national committee and its presidium.
After the introduction of Martial Law and he interned along with Jerzy Kropiwnick for calling a strike. He was initially sentenced to 4.5 years imprisonment, which was increased on appeal to six years.Together with Jerzy Kropiwnicki he lasted 57 days on hunger strike, during which he was forcibly fed. He was released in 1984, in connection with the amnesty. In the mid-80s he moved for a while illegally out of the country, held talks with representatives of the international trade union organizations. In 1986 he organized opposition to RKW Earth Lodz structure underground connection, in 1988, he led a secret regional committees of NSZZ "S". At the end of the 80s he worked as a taxi driver in 1989, re-employed in the MPK.
After re-registration in 1992 he chaired the Management Board of the region. From 1992 to 1993 he served as deputy minister of labor and social policy, and later was head of the Department of Transportation of the Disabled operating within the Lodz MPK.
In 1991 he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate and then in the elections of 1997 as a candidate of the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland in the Lodz region. Since 2001 he worked as a driver at the Polish embassy in Australia, then he was hired at the Polish Embassy inCanada.
He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland (by the Polish government in exile in London in 1990). In 2006 he received the Commander's Cross of OOP.
