10-24-2014, 03:52 PM
This one is not unusual in the special service (as the owner didn't serve) or additional history. It is interesting in that that it is to a catholic priest.
The function of chaplain existed in soviet-created Polish Army in the East (there was even atleast one chaplain awarded Soviet combat order) it was removed from the the army shortly after the war.
In the stalinist era the clerics were usually forced to serve in the construction battallions, but for most of the PRP period the party didn't want to enfuriate the bishops, so most of the priests - like father Władysław Maciąg here - were not mobilised and would often get the category "Fit for service, not trained"
The function of chaplain existed in soviet-created Polish Army in the East (there was even atleast one chaplain awarded Soviet combat order) it was removed from the the army shortly after the war.
In the stalinist era the clerics were usually forced to serve in the construction battallions, but for most of the PRP period the party didn't want to enfuriate the bishops, so most of the priests - like father Władysław Maciąg here - were not mobilised and would often get the category "Fit for service, not trained"
