Józef Feldman
Józef Feldman (1913-1972, son of Lew and Ita nee Sakiel) - was a soldier, politician and Stalinist prosecutor of Jewish origin. He was a colonel in the Polish Army, deputy Chief Military Prosecutor for special matters and a member of the PZPRPolish United Workers' Party (polish: Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza - PZPR) - communist monoparty established in 1948. Also referred to as real-socialist, ruling in the Polish People's Republic in 1948–1989. It existed until 1990. It followed the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. During its existence, the PZPR was a mass party, leading a centrally managed and bureaucratic economy, exercising state power in a totalitarian manner, seeking totalitarian control of all spheres of social life..
Feldman had the appropriate level of "political awareness" and was thus able to serve as a military court judge. In fact, such positions could only be held by people trusted by the Stalinist regime, experienced with the suppression of the organized and externally supported by imperialists bourgeois-landed counter-revolution, aimed directly at restoring the old order
. Feldman himself emphasized that the new prosecution was forged and tempered in the heat of the fighting against the class enemy
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Feldman, by issuing his sentences, violated the principle of judicial independence. He personally participated in brutal interrogations of the Cursed SoldiersCursed soldiers or Indomitable Soldiers, Polish post-war independence and anti-communist underground - anti-communist, independence guerrilla movement, resisting the sovietization of Poland and subjugating it to the USSR, fighting against the security services of the USSR and subordinate services in Poland., and as a superior he allowed his subordinates to use torture. He applied for the death penalty and long sentences for soldiers of the Polish underground.
The Mazur's CommissionCommission for examining the liability of former employees of the Main Information Board, the Supreme Military Prosecutor's Office and the Supreme Military Court (the so-called Mazur's commission) - a commission established after the death of Bolesław Bierut to investigate cases of breaking the law in the highest military law enforcement and justice authorities. Following an investigation, the Commission concluded that the activities of some judges appeared to take on the characteristics of court murder., in its report from 1957, held Feldman responsible for many acts of abuse of power.