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COPYRIGHT 2002 Financial Times Ltd.
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
Anatol Fejgin, a notorious commander of the political police of Poland's Stalinist era, died in Warsaw in July, aged 93. Although he did at one point serve over eight years in prison for some of his crimes, there were other matters for which he never faced a court. At the time of his death he was still the subject of further investigations by National Remembrance Institute [IPN] prosecutors. The following is an excerpt from a report by Polish news agency PAP:
Warsaw, 10 August: Anatol Fejgin, the last of the leadership of the Stalinist-era Ministry of Public Security [MBP], died in Warsaw towards the end of July at the age of 93. After October 1956, the name of Fejgin (together with a number of others) symbolized the terror of the Security Administration [UB].
The UB was the generic name of MBP units, the political police, created under the supervision of the NKVD after the entry of the Red Army onto Polish territory in 1944... In November 1956, after the...
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