Nieznani sprawcy” z placu Sikorskiego w Krakowie. Rzecz o pobiciu ks. Andrzeja Bardeckiego
“Unknown perpetrators” from the Sikorski Square in Kraków. The Beating of Father Andrzej Bardecki

Summary/Abstract: The beating, on 21 December 1977, of Father Andrzej Bardecki – a long-standing church assistant and one of the editors of “Tygodnik Powszechny” – at the entrance to his apartment in Kraków, made to look like an ordinary bandit attack, had a huge impact not only on the church community in Kraków but also the whole of Poland, especially on those contesting the people’s power. It was a sort of revenge for the views presented by the editors of “Tygodnik Powszechny” (and indirectly also by Cardinal Karol Wojtyła) on the reality of the church policy of the communist state and the attempts of the regime press to show the correct relations of Polish communists with the Holy See. The assumption of the conducted investigation was not to reveal the perpetrators of the attack. The article presents the mechanisms used by the communists in the fight against the opposition, which was considered to be the environment of “Tygodnik Powszechny”, and in intimidation of active oppositionists. The attack on the Sikorski Square in Cracow in 1977, was referred to by the authorities of Poland and their “armed arm” many times over the later decades of the 20th century

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