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
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.
Waclaw (Wenceslaus, Walter) Kozminski was born in Biala
Podlaska on 16 October 1829. In 1845 he enrolled in the School of
Fine Arts in Warsaw and lost his faith. In 1846 he came under
suspicion for his politics and was imprisoned. On 15 August 1846,
the Feastday of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary he found
faith again. He was freed from prison on 27 March 1847.
He entered the Capuchin novitiate at Lubartow on 21 December 1848.
He was ordained priest on 27 December 1852. From 1853-1864 he
worked in the apostolates of preaching and spiritual direction in
Warsaw. In 1855 he began the congregation of the Felician Sisters
and in 1860 the Capuchin Sisters of Saint Clare.
After the January Uprising he was confined to Zakroczyn in January
1863 until 1892 and then Nowe-Miasto. In the confessional of
Zakroczyn numerous Institutes and Congregations took shape,
seventeen were founded by him and approved by the Holy See on 21
June 1889. Following accusations and reports restrictions were
imposed on the Congregations in 1907. In the twenty years between
1895 and 1916 he is Capuchin Commissary General in Russia.
At eighty seven years of age Br. Honorat died in Nowe-Miasto on 16
December 1916 . The cause for his beatification opened in 1929. The
process concerning his writings (more than one hundred volumes)
concluded in 1974. John Paul II proclaimed him Blessed on 16
October 1988.
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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