Mirosław Milewski

Mirosław Milewski (1 May 1928 - 23 February 2008) was a Polish communist activist, major general of the Citizens' Militia and Minister of Internal Affairs in the years 1980–1981.

Biography He was born in Lipsk as a son of Bolesław and Anastazja. Until 1939 he completed 2 grades in a secondary school. After the Soviet invasion of Poland he found employment in the Lipsk Commune Board of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic administration. In October 1944 he was transferred to the Security Office in Augustów... Together with the units of the Soviet 50th Army, the NKVD troops and units of the Polish People's Army he took part in the Augustów roundup in July 1945. He took an active part in detaining Poles who were later murdered. In 1945 he began cooperation with the Soviet military counterintelligence SMERSH and as a result of his activities many members of the Home Army were arrested

Until March 1946 he served in the Provincial Office of Public Security in Białystok. Then he was transferred to a one-year training course for public security officers. After completing it he returned to Białystok. On 1 April 1955 he was transferred to the Committee for Public Security in Warsaw. In the years 1956-1957 he served in the Citizens' Militia Headquarters in Warsaw. On 1 September 1959 he took the position of head in Department III of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, responsible for monitoring and combating anti-state activities in the country. On 15 November 1962 he took the position of deputy director of Department I (intelligence) and from 15 January 1969 he was the director of that department. On January 25, 1971, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and held this position until July 31, 1981. In October 1971, by resolution of the State Council of the Polish People's Republic, he was nominated to the rank of Brigadier General of the Citizens' Militia. The nomination was presented to him at the Belweder Palace by the Chairman of the Council, Józef Cyrankiewicz. In October 1979, he was promoted to the rank of Major General of the Citizens' Militia.

In the years 1945–1948 he was a member of the Polish Workers' Party. After the unification of the Polish Worker's Party and the Polish Socialist Party, he a member of the newly formed Polish United Workers' Party. From 1980 a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. From July 1981 he was a member of the Politburo and secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. In the years 1981–1983 he was a member of the Commission of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party established to explain the causes and course of social conflicts in the history of the People's Republic of Poland.

He was also a member of the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy. In the years 1979–1985 vice-president of that Society.

Associated with the "Iron" affair and the murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko. As a result of these events, in 1985 he was removed from all positions in the party and state, and then retired. In 1990 he was briefly arrested.

He died on February 23, 2008 in Warsaw, and was buried in a family grave at the Northern Communal Cemetery in Wólka Węglowa

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