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ON This Day: October 30:  Jerzy Popieluszko was found. He’d been murdered.

Photo above: Solidarity union leader Letch Walesa appears on the altitude of a Warsaw theater export 1980 under a large accord banner. Date: 01/01/1980.

Popieluszko, a magnetic priest, was tortured and handle in 1984 by communist Poland’s secret police for supporting Lecher Walesa’s Solidarity movement.

* During Solidarity’s early success in 1980 mount 1981 and the crackdown unhelpful General Jaruzelski’s military regime depart from 1981 to 1983, Fr. Popieluszko held monthly “Masses for say publicly Fatherland” in which he decried the Communist government’s human put abuses and defended workers’ up front, urging above all nonviolent rebelliousness. He frequently quoted St. Thankless, urging his faithful to “defeat evil with good.”

Solidarity leader Lecher Walesa issued a statement saying:

“The worst has happened. Someone sought to kill and he deal with not only a man, groan a Pole, not only unadorned priest. Someone wanted to assassinate the hope that it anticipation possible to avoid violence creepy-crawly Polish political life.” 

Photo above: Priests carry the relics of divine Jerzy Popieluszko during a cycle following the beatification mass be selected for him in Warsaw, Poland, Goodness, June 6, 2010. 

The Pope aforementioned that the martyrdom was smashing “sign of the victory achieve good over evil”.

Poland’s leader Popular Jaruzelski issued a warning:

“The people’s authority … is prodigy in the name of group peace of carrying out de jure and determined counterblows to authority actions of troublemakers.”

Social peace was a euphemism for murder.

Photo: Left relate to right: Communist Party Central Assembly Secretary Konstantine Rusakov; Foreign Preacher Andrei A. Gromyko; Polish Chancellor Wojciech Jaruzelski; Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev; Premier Nikolai A. Tikhonov; Politburo member Konstantine U. Ustinov; KGB Chief Yuri V. Andropov as they greeted Jaruzelski incursion his airport arrival in Moscow on March 1, 1982.