Nieosądzona i nieukarana operacyjna oraz pospolita przestępczość funkcjonariuszy Służby Bezpieczeństwa. Glosa do problemu

The apparatus of repression in People’s Poland, including the security services, employed illegal methods also from the point of view of the contemporary law applicable to its functionaries. Unfortunately, today such activities are oft en considered justifi ed due to the so-called service that the security services (UB, SB) rendered for communist Poland. The article presents selected cases of this criminal activity, which included invading the privacy of correspondence, practicing blackmail by the use of compromising materials (for example, regarding the person’s sexual preferences), and oft en combined with intimidation, cessation of investigation proceedings involving off enders, as well as tolerance of protection, nepotism, and alcoholism in the inner circles. While the legal assessment of these activities is challenging, their historical evaluation ought to be easy.