---
title: '"WANTED / List gończy": Solidarność Walcząca handbill against Jaruzelski, Poznań'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidarnosc-walczaca-list-gonczy-jaruzelski-poznan-1989/
description: Handbill styled as a Wild-West 'WANTED' notice with a stencilled portrait of a man in dark glasses and a 100,000 zloty reward 'for delivery alive or dead'.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Mock 'wanted' notice offering a reward for a named real person 'alive or dead', with accusations of war crimes, NKVD service and mental illness. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["WANTED / List gończy": Solidarność Walcząca handbill against Jaruzelski, Poznań](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/solidarnosc-walczaca-list-gonczy-jaruzelski-poznan-1989.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/solidarnosc-walczaca-list-gonczy-jaruzelski-poznan-1989.jpg)

# "WANTED / List gończy": Solidarność Walcząca handbill against Jaruzelski, Poznań

Handbill styled as a Wild-West 'WANTED' notice with a stencilled portrait of a man in dark glasses and a 100,000 zloty reward 'for delivery alive or dead'. It labels the named target a 'war criminal', 'agent of the former NKWD' and mentally ill, and calls a demonstration at the Old Market for 22 June 1989. The labels are asserted, not argued.

## Text on the object

Original (Polish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
WANTED
LIST GOŃCZY

DEMONSTRACJA PRZECIWKO JARUZELSKIEMU • 22.06.89 r
Godz. 15.15 - STARY RYNEK

POSZUKIWANY
JEST ZBRODNIARZEM WOJENNYM (13.XII.81)
DOKONAŁ WIELU ZBRODNI NA NARODZIE POLSKIM.

• AGENT DAWNIEJSZEGO NKWD. DO DZISIEJSZEGO DNIA JEST NA USŁUGACH SOWIETÓW.
• Ostatnie pseudo: „Spawacz"

JEST NIEBEZPIECZNY Z POWODU CHOROBY PSYCHICZNEJ MOŻE PODAWAĆ SIĘ ZA PREZYDENTA

100 000 zł
NAGRODY ZA DOSTARCZENIE ŻYWEGO LUB MARTWEGO

Solidarność Oddział Poznań Walcząca [logo]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
WANTED
WANTED NOTICE

DEMONSTRATION AGAINST JARUZELSKI • 22.06.89
At 15.15 - OLD MARKET SQUARE

WANTED
IS A WAR CRIMINAL (13.XII.81)
COMMITTED MANY CRIMES AGAINST THE POLISH NATION.

• AGENT OF THE FORMER NKVD. TO THIS DAY IS AT THE SERVICE OF THE SOVIETS.
• Latest alias: "Welder"

IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE OF MENTAL ILLNESS, MAY PASS HIMSELF OFF AS PRESIDENT

100,000 zł
REWARD FOR DELIVERY ALIVE OR DEAD

Solidarity, Poznań Branch, Fighting [logo]
```

Printed text is letter-spaced in places. 'NAGRODY' is printed as such (sic). The bottom strip combines the Solidarność logotype, 'Oddział Poznań' and 'Walcząca' with the SW anchor logo. Small initials at bottom right not transcribed.

[← Al-Iraq newspaper, 7 January 1989: new-year illustration of Saddam Hussein with '1989' banner](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iraq-al-iraq-new-year-1989-saddam-illustration/) [President Bush holds up a bag of crack in the Oval Office →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bush-crack-bag-address-1989/)

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