IF YOU NEED INDIVIDUAL STAMPS RATHER THAN THE WHOLE SET PLEASE
WRITE TO ME AND I WILL LIST THEM SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY.
SOLIDARITY STAMPS WERE PRINTED ON WHATEVER PAPER WAS AVAILABLE AS
BETWEEN 1982 AND 1990 EVERYTHING WAS SCARCE IN POLAND. THIS GIVES
RISE TO VARIETIES WHICH ARE DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN BY THE DISCERNING
SPECIALIST.
AS FAR AS I AM AWARE, BASED ON THE MATERIAL I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN,
THIS ISSUE EXISTS ONLY ON ONE KIND OF PAPER. THESE STAMPS ARE
ON WHITE AND YELLOW PAPER - THEY ARE ORIGINAL FROM THE PERIOD
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SCAN IS A STOCK SCAN. YOU WILL RECEIVE STAMPS
OF A SIMILAR QUALITY
THIS PROPAGANDA STAMP SET WAS ISSUED BY THE POLISH UNDERGROUND
SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AS A DIVERSIFICATION STATEMENT AGAINST MARTIAL
LAW WHICH HAD BEEN DECLARED BY THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES IN POLAND.
IT IS A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM . THE UNDERGROUND MEMBERS
WHO ISSUED THIS STAMP RISKED A LOT, BECAUSE IF CAUGHT THEY WOULD
HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A UNIQUE PIECE OF HISTORY. IT IS A
MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS HISTORIAN AND COLLECTOR OF THIS PERIOD AND
WILL MAKE AN INTERESTING ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced the introduction of martial
law in a speech first broadcast on radio and television at 6:00 am
on December 13, 1981. In order to isolate members of the opposition
(from the Solidarity movement), 52 internment centers were created.
A total of 10,132 internment orders were issued against 9,736
people during the period of martial law.
Romuald Traugutt (16 January 1826 – 5 August 1864) was a
Polish general and war hero, best known for commanding the January
Uprising. From October 1863 to August 1864 he was Dictator of
Insurrection. He headed the Polish national government from October
17, 1863 to April 20, 1864, and was president of its Foreign
Affairs Office.
Before the uprising he was a Lt. Colonel (podpulkownik) in the
Russian army where he had won distinction in the Crimean War. He
retired from the army in 1862 and became involved with conservative
Polish nationalists. After leading a partisan unit in the initial
rebellion, he became leader of the rebel forces in October
1863.
After the uprising failed, he was sentenced to death by the Russian
regime and hanged near the Warsaw Citadel on 5 August 1864, aged
38, together with other rebel commanders (Rafal Krajewski, Jozef
Toczyski, Roman Zulinski and Jan Jezioranski). The Roman Catholic
Church is considering his beatification due to his overwhelming
devotion to God and his sacrifice for his
homeland.
The January Uprising (Polish: powstanie styczniowe, Lithuanian:
1863 m. sukilimas) was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth (present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, parts
of Ukraine, western Russia) against the Russian Empire. It began
January 22, 1863, and lasted until the last insurgents were
captured in 1865.
The uprising began as a spontaneous protest by young Poles against
conscription into the Imperial Russian Army, and was soon joined by
high-ranking Polish-Lithuanian officers and various politicians.
The insurrectionists, severely outnumbered and lacking serious
outside support, were forced to resort to guerrilla warfare
tactics. They failed to win any major military victories or capture
any major cities or fortresses, but they did blunt the effect of
the Tsar´s abolition of serfdom in the Russian partition, which had
been designed to draw the support of peasants away from the nation.
Severe reprisals against insurgents, such as public executions and
deportations to Siberia, led many people to abandon armed struggle
and turn instead to the idea of "organic work": economic and
cultural self-improvement.
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