Stanisław Zarakowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish general
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Place of Birth: Russian Empire
About Stanisław Zarakowski
- General/Private Stanislaw Zarakowski (born 7 November 1907 in Svolna now Belarus – died 11 April 1998 in Warsaw, Poland) was a chief military prosecutor in the People's Republic of Poland; famous for his role in several trials of anti-communist officers, which resulted in many death sentences.Zarakowski was born to a local landowner in Svolna village (Belarusian: ???????) in Vilna Governorate (Russian Empire, present-day Belarus).
- His family's estate was nationalized during the Bolshevik revolution when he was ten years old.
- They moved to Vilnius, where Zarakowski graduated from the law faculty of the Wilno University (then in the Second Polish Republic).
- During World War II he fled to the Soviet Union, and arrived back in war-torn Poland with the Soviet-sponsored Polish People's Army.
- A hardline Stalinist, Zarakowski was assigned a job with the Chief Military Prosecutor Office and quickly rose to become the Chief Military Prosecutor of the People's Republic of Poland.
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