Battle against the NKVD at Surkonty

Nicknamed by the NKVD, the “handless major" ("besrukhii major"), Maciej Kalenkiewicz was one of the most distinguished officers in the ranks of the Polish Home Army. Kalenkiewicz was also one of the first victims of the organized mass terror, conducted by the Soviets against Polish democratic underground, and against the Polish population at large. - He was among the most ideologically fateful individuals whom I have met in my entire life – reminisces his former colleague form the Cichociemni (Silent and Invisible - sabotage and diversion commando formation), Capt. Stanislaw Sedziak nom de guerre “Warta”. - He believed that the moral fortitude of our men will at the end bring Poland its freedom. Major Kalenkiewicz began his underground service as a second in command in the unit of the legendary, Major Henryk Dobrzanski “Hubal”, the first partisan commander of World War II, and died as a symbol of the underground resistance against Soviet terror in the Eastern Boarderlands (pol. Kresy Wschodnie) of Poland. Read More Here