Police Raid on Majdzik’s Home
“We are people of resistance, people of the anti-communist underground—we will fight to the very end. We are unyielding. I want to show this to the Polish people, my fellow countrymen. We must not bow before evil, before barbarism. Before what this savage horde is doing in Poland,” said Ryszard Majdzik on TV Republika, commenting on the morning search of his apartment.
This morning, police officers entered the home of Ryszard Majdzik, an anti-communist opposition activist. The authorities were allegedly searching for “firearms.”
“They stormed my home like during martial law”
“We are people of resistance, people of the anti-communist underground—we will fight to the very end. We are unyielding. I want to show this to the Polish people, my fellow countrymen. We must not bow before evil, before barbarism. Before what this savage horde is doing in Poland. They want to dismantle the Polish state,” Majdzik stated.
“I recently warned that they are forcing us to create an underground state. We will continue to enforce the law. Judges and prosecutors who collaborate with the ‘December 13 coalition’ and follow criminal orders cannot feel untouchable. Poland, the Polish nation, has endured a lot throughout history. What you are doing now is a return to the Stalinist era that followed 1950. I legally own weapons from my father’s bunker. They have been hanging on the walls of my home for over 30 years,” Majdzik continued.
Referring to reports in pro-government media, he said:
“They are now writing that firearms and ammunition were found in my home. It was just an ammo belt from a machine gun, hanging on the wall. It had no gunpowder. I am a collector. I fear nothing.”
Protests
A protest organized by Ryszard Majdzik is scheduled for today at 4:00 PM in the main square of Skawina. Additionally, on Saturday, March 22, the “Gazeta Polska” Club in Kraków, led by Ryszard Majdzik, invites everyone to a demonstration against the dismantling of the Polish state. The protest will take place at 4:00 PM at Matejko Square.
‼️PROTEST‼️w #Krakowie
— Kluby "Gazety Polskiej" (@KlubyGP) March 19, 2025
22.03 sobota godz. 16:00 plac Matejki w Krakowie.
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Who is Ryszard Majdzik?
Ryszard Majdzik is a Polish anti-communist hero and a democratic opposition activist from the 1970s. From 1978 to 1980, he collaborated with the Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR) and the Student Solidarity Committee (SKS). After the introduction of martial law on December 13, 1981, he was interned in detention centers in Nowy Wiśnicz, Załęże near Rzeszów, and Kielce.
In the 1980s, he organized numerous protests and hunger strikes and was involved in publishing and distributing underground press, for which he was repeatedly arrested. In 1989, he opposed the Round Table negotiations. Since 1990, he has been active in the “Solidarity” 80 trade union, serving as chairman of both the Plant Commission and the National Commission.
He is the son of Mieczysław Majdzik, who, as a teenager, joined the Freedom and Independence Association (WiN). Arrested and tortured by communist security officers (UB), he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. After the June 1976 protests, he supported persecuted workers from Radom. He later joined the Movement for the Defense of Human and Civil Rights and was a founding member of the Confederation of Independent Poland.
Since 1978, he has been receiving a disability pension. In 1981, he participated in the annual March on the Trail of the First Cadre Company. In 1980, he founded a branch of the “Solidarity” union at the Skawina power plant. During martial law, he was interned from December 13, 1981, to July 23, 1982. He is also the grandson of Zygmunt Majdzik, a State Police officer executed in Miednoje in 1940 by the NKVD.