On 25 September 2023, in the Regional Court in Gdańsk, court proceedings will begin (the previous date was cancelled) from a lawsuit filed by the Association of Families of Cursed Soldiers and members of families of the Steadfast Soldiers against Joanna Senyszyn. The lawsuit relates to untrue, hurtful opinions about the Cursed Soldiers posted by the MP in social media. The subject of the lawsuit is 13 posts that Joanna Senyszyn posted on her Twitter profile.
We will inform you of the progress of the hearing.
We would like to remind you:
The Association of Families of Cursed Soldiers and family members of the Unbroken Soldiers, supported by the Polish League Against Defamation, filed a lawsuit against Joanna Senyszyn in April 2019 for violation of personal rights.
Over the past few years, Joanna Senyszyn has made posts on her profile in which she has repeatedly insulted the memory of the Cursed Soldiers – people who, often sacrificing their lives, fought for an independent Poland. One such post is one in which Joanna Senyszyn insulted the memory, activities and honour of the Cursed Soldiers in particularly harsh words. The former MP wrote: „The Wyklęty are not soldiers, but a bunch of social outcasts, idlers and frustrators waiting for the Third World War. They murdered 5,000 civilians, including 187 children, looted, raped, tortured and intimidated Poles rebuilding the country. Their holiday is a blatant mockery of Polish citizens. It will be abolished.”
„Cursed Soldiers” are Polish soldiers, with a crowned eagle on their caps, often a ryngraf on their chests, or God in their hearts. Those who started fighting for their Homeland not in 1944/45, together with the capture of our country by the second, Soviet occupant, but generally as early as September 1939 in the defensive war against the Germans and Soviets. Many joined the underground structures during the German occupation. At that time, they took an oath of allegiance to the Republic and steadfastly defended the values of „God, Honour, Homeland” to the end. Although a direct fight against the Germans and Soviets was not possible, due to the strength of the enemy armies, the steadfast heroes found a way to defend Poland and fight for the freedom of the Fatherland. The power of the Polish underground to this day inspires admiration and appreciation for thousands of Polish patriots united around the highest value – the Homeland. Many of those who remained unbroken after the war, when the Home Army, for example, was disbanded, belonged to organisations (such as the Home Army Resistance Movement, the Home Army of Citizens or the Vilnius District of the Home Army) which remained in conspiracy and continued their independence activities, fighting the communist occupier.
For many of them, the fight against the communist regime, which was subordinate to the Soviet regime, ended dramatically, and they made the supreme sacrifice – they gave their lives, remaining loyal to the oath they had taken to be faithful to the Fatherland to the very end.
