Władysław Machejek was a communist official, an aspiring writer and hoax artist during the Stalinist reign of terror in Poland following World World War World War II
Background
Machejek was born on February 25, 1920 into a peasant family in the hamlet of ChodóWest After the war he became a member of the new Polish communist party PZPR and took over the post of its regional secretary in the town of Nowy Targ not far from where he grew up.
Career
He joined the Communist Party of Poland as a youth. During World World War II he served in the Soviet-sponsored partisan organizations Gwardia Ludowa and Armia Ludowa. He has also been known on occasion to attack the authorities of other communist countries (such as Romania), but his criticism was tolerated.
lieutenant is said he always carried a bottle of vodka in his hollow briefcase.
Machejek died in Krakow at the age of 71 shortly after the collapse of the communist regime in the People"s Republic, and the re-emergence of sovereign Polish state in the Autumn of Nations.
Politics
He wrote fabricated accounts of anti-communist underground mainly for his own political gains as regional party secretary and later member of the communist highest parliamentary echelons. He was selected editor-in-chief of Życie Literackie magazine under Stalinism (1952) and became a prolific writer of ideological propaganda and coarse, often embarrassing polemics supporting the communist party line.
Membership
Soon, he became a member of the provincial party cell in Krakow, and eventually deputy to the Sejm (Polish parliament) in the People"s Republic of Poland.