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Development of Polish Criminal Law

2022; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-16601-3_2

2731-0612

Błażej Kaucz,

European history and politics

This chapter showcases the legal tools which were used in Poland to introduce the militarisation of behaviours. This process of social control was established by a foreign power in Polish territory after WWII. The security apparatus of the Soviet Union played a significant role in establishing the militarisation of behaviours in Communist Poland. Once the process was initiated and embedded, the Polish political leaders made full use of it. Consequently, in this chapter, political and military leadership was considered as part of a discussion on the importance of the triad of power, leadership, and authority. That discussion was supplemented by a consideration of what might happen in the face of the weakness or duality of the state’s political leadership. In the Polish case after WWII, a considerable level of social homogenisation and obedience was achieved by means of decrees (which offered simplicity, austerity, and robustness of their legal and practical solutions), labour camps, death penalty, fear and oppression (political and social repression), and the military courts (during the late 1940s).