8 July 2015
In the text below the following
abbrevations are used: LSB – Author of this blog, MG – Author's wife, JB – Author's daughter.
We would like to inform about
violations of human rights, violations of constitutional rights and
about persecution of our family members for political reasons. For
many years we have tried to explain and repair various
irregularities. We sent many letters to authorities with questions
and requests for explanations. In response there was either dead
silence or increased repressions and humiliating treatment. Violations of law continue for many years. They have a persistent and a permanent
character. We have analyzed in detail available evidence, data and
our interactions in different social environments and in different
institutions. We have also read professional literature in humanities
nad social sciences. Having done all that we conclude that we are
obviously dealing with persecution for political reasons, although
any reference to this phenomenon is carefully omitted in public life.
The persecution continues
without interruption since the generation of our grandfathers, i.e.
since the second world war. Having invaded Poland, Soviet Union
confiscated grandfathers farm on the side of LSB's mother, I.B., maiden name O., in G. near B. in Brasław county. Seven persons, nearly entire family, was imprisoned
in concentration camps for support given to Polish underground
resistance fighters, who opposed both the German and the Soviet
occupation. I.B. was imprisoned from 1949 to 1956. Members
of her family were tortured physically and psychologically.
Soviet invaders confiscated the
farm of LSB's paternal grandfathers in the village of K. in Oszmiana county. LSB's father B. refused to serve in the
communist army under Soviet control in January 1945 and fled together
with several dozen of his countrymen. This decision was a revolt
against genocide of Polish citizens, including members of the Polish
anti-Nazi resistance, carried out by the Soviet Union. B. did
not want to pledge allegiance to communists murderers. He also
participated in a battle against Soviet forces. He was a political
prisoner in communist concentration camps from 1945 to 1956.
After coming out from the camps
LSB's parents continued to be persecuted and watched by the communist
secret services both at workplace and in private life. LSB was also a
target of these activities. He wanted to be a scientist but had no
chance to do a Ph.D. in communist Poland. Having obtained a doctoral
degree in Physics from an American university
in 1995, he returned to Poland. Here repressions resumed immediately.
LSB and MG married in 1997.
Shortfly afterwards also MG became the target of repression. Later
our daughter JB was also targeted.
In 1999 the regional inspector
of the Ministry of Culture blocked the advance of MG to the position
of the head of the piano section in the State School of Music in
Z.G. The inspector claimed in a letter addressed to the
school director, that MG did not possess the necessary professional
qualifications. This was an unjustified and unlawful action. MG
obviously did possess all the required qualifications. The letter was
an obvious ploy to stop MG's professional advance.
In September 2011 an intensive
campaign was launched, whose aim was to bring MG to social death.
Representatives of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National
Heritage, as well as two state prosecutors participated in the
campaign.
In the same school year of
2011/12 a series of simultaneous provocations was launched against
LSB and MG in their workplaces and against their daughter in her
elementary school.
On 8 March 2012 MG was fired
from the post of the section head (she held that position since 2008)
without justification. The law regulating the educational system
requires that such decision be accompanied by a written explanation.
One cannot fire a person from a managerial post in the educational
system without written precise, detailed explanation. MG lost part of
her income as a result. MG was also deprived of the usual school
director awards which are given yearly to successful teachers.
LSB was deprived of university
rector's award in 2012 (for achievements in 2011) which he should
obviously receive for his discoveries in the scientific work.
Rector's award in 2011 was reduced to third class (first class being
the highest), although the significance of his work was obviously
much greater.
University documents concerning
LSB were falsified at the University where he is employed and
elsewhere a number of times. The university management, the
department leaders and coworkers violated the law. They did their
utmost to block LSB's professional development and were continuously
trying to make him quit the Department of Physics of the University. There were also attempts of theft of LSB's intellectual
property.
Documents of the State School
of Music in Z.G. were falsified. This statement refers both
to documents concerning MG herself and to those concerning the
overall functioning of the school.
There are serious reasons to
believe that our daughter JB is improperly treated in her current
school for political reasons.
In recent years individuals
unknown to us entered our apartment during our absence on number of
occasions. Situations were arranged with an obvious aim to induce the
feeling of fear.
Actions against LSB and MG were
conducted also in countries outside Poland.
Actions aimed at total
destabilization, and consequently psychological breakdown, resulting
in strong PTSD symptoms and mental and social death, are carried out
following schemes devised under communist dictatorship. These schemes
were adapted to new circumstances after 1990 and are in continuous
use today. The attack is carried out not only in the professional
field but also in the area of private life, including family life. It
is based on continuous delivery of traumatic incidents of varying
intensity. It is aimed at destroying our psychological resistance,
destroying the joy of life, the will to live and the will to
undertake creative activities.
Actions of genocidal character
are being carried out in Poland without interruption since WWII. The
targets of the persecution are all those who firmly opposed communism
and refused to bend their back to the communist rule. Communists
murdered them, deprived of jobs suitable to their professional
qualifications, confiscated property and deprived of chances for
social advance. They also decided to erase them from public memory.
Observation of public life in
Poland and our family experience prove that we are dealing with a
decision of „de facto damnatio
memoriae” type. It is action which has not been publicly
announced – otherwise it would be a public admission of guilt –
whose aim is to eliminate persecution targets from public memory, to
falsify their social and professional idenity, to falsify or hide
documents related to them and their families, to make their life
unbearable.
Signed by LSB and MG
Signed by LSB and MG
