History of Europe

The life of the damned man's wife strewn with thorns

This woman went through hell for love. The only fault of her and her lover was that they did not want to live in a communist country and were ready to fight for it. When they had taken her lover, she had nothing left but the tiny life that she was secretly carrying under her heart.

The story of senior sergeant Władysław Grudziński "Pilot", a soldier from the "Roja" unit, did not come to light for 70 years. The story of his beloved allows us to look at the fate of the cursed in a different way. Through the eyes of a young girl, Anastasia.

I cannot officially vow love to you, but I can do it in front of this painting of the Virgin Mary and in the presence of witnesses - he said.

You have betrayed the government. You were hanging out with a bandit! Stubborn female dog. Take it in a spin! - the torturers shouted.

They'll kill you if they find out. They will beat me to the point of miscarriage on purpose. Better not to say anything, maybe we will survive - she whispered to her unborn child in the torture chamber of the Security Office.

Learn the story of the woman who loved the cursed, described in the book by Anna Śnieżko, "Wife cursed" (Horizon 2018 sign).

It is a story about love for the cursed soldier, about the strength of faith in the darkest times of Stalinism. About the feeling of duty towards the Homeland of those who did not agree to enslavement. It is a story of two people having a fight for which no one thanked them and which no one appreciated for a long time.