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
"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.
- Date
- June 1989
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Solidarność Walcząca (Fighting Solidarity), Poznań branch (Oddział Poznań)
- Country
- Poland
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Polish Peoples Republic
- Leader
- Wojciech Jaruzelski
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Europeana 1989 - Poznań collecting day (14-15 June 2013), digitised in the Federation of Digital Libraries (fbc.pionier.net.pl), via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 (provider's own rights statement on the Europeana record; not independently verified)
Europeana 1989 - Poznań, 14-15.06.2013, via Europeana (record /2025902/_nnVvz85, POZ074)
Text on the object
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]
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.
