Okulitsky Leopold

Definition: The last commandant of the Home Army.
Years of life: 1898-1946
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Born November 12 (according to other sources, November 11 or 13), 1898 in Bratučice near Bochnia (Austria-Hungary). Participant of the First World War and the Soviet-Polish War. Graduated from the Higher Military School in Warsaw (1925). In 1936-1939 he worked at the Polish General Staff. At the beginning of World War II he took part in the defense of Warsaw. Then - commandant of the Lodz district of the "Union of Armed Struggle" (UAW), and from November 1940 - commandant of the Lviv district of the UAW. Arrested on January 22, 1941 in Lvov by Soviet security agencies, sent to Moscow, and spent six months in Lubyanka. Released on August 12, 1941, after the signing of the Maisky-Sikorsky Pact. Joined the Anders Army and was appointed chief of staff. From October 1944 - commandant of the AK. On January 19, 1945, he issued an order to dissolve the AK. He headed the new underground officer military-political organization "Niepodległość-NIE". 03/27/1945 arrested in Pruszkow (Poland) during political negotiations with a Soviet representative, taken to Moscow. One of the accused in the “trial of sixteen” - a trial of 16 high-ranking representatives of the Polish Resistance movement, which was conducted by the Soviet authorities in Moscow on June 18-21, 1945. On June 21, 1945, he was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to 10 years in the camps. He died on December 24, 1946 in the Lubyanka prison (there is also evidence that he died in Butyrka). According to other sources, he was shot. On April 19, 1990, the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR overturned the verdict of the Supreme Court of the USSR Supreme Court dated June 21, 1945, and the case was dismissed “for lack of corpus delicti.” O.'s symbolic graves are located at the military cemetery in Kielce (Poland) and at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow.
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