They did not agree to Poland becoming the 17th Soviet republic, they did not accept injustice and contempt. Katzed, persecuted, they did not give in. They put the homeland higher than their own lives. On March 1 we celebrate their day, the Day of the Wyklętych Soldiers.

On March 1, President Andrzej Duda decorated veterans and those nurturing the memory of the Wyklęt Soldiers. The president was accompanied, among others, by Sejm Speaker Marek Kuchcinski, IPN head Jaroslaw Szarek and UDSKiOR head Jan Jozef Kasprzyk.

These are those who hid in the forest for years, suffering hunger, misery, cold, disease, constant persecution. It was those who supported them, who helped them, who set up all sorts of organizations. Each of these actions was punishable by death, imprisonment, torture, persecution, at best a wolf ticket for life - to study, to work, everywhere. At best! So it was the Unbroken Soldiers, the Ex-Cursed Soldiers, but not only them. These were cursed families, these were children without fathers, without mothers, these were single wives, suffering privation, persecution. These were entire families cursed, persecuted, oppressed, and unfortunately often murdered by the communists.

And it was finally those who said: "No!" to this greatest goal that the Communists had - to murder and bury, so that no one would ever know, so that history would fall on deaf ears about them. Those who decided to bring out this memory. And they devoted many years of their lives to make this memory. So that the younger generation would know about them, so that monuments would be erected, so that finally the defenders of the Republic, the soldiers of independence would be given due honor. - said the President.

The Speaker of the Sejm took part in the Solemn Appeal of Remembrance in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The state commemoration of the Day of the Wyklętych Soldiers was crowned by a mass at St. John's Archcathedral in Krakowskie Przedmieście.