[Polish Army - Gen. Marian Spychalski surrounded by military and workers in a mine - situational photograph]. [...

[ Polish Army - Gen. Marian Spychalski surrounded by military and workers in a mine - situational photograph]. [ca. 1960]. Photograph form. 14x9 cm, of unknown authorship.
On the back, inscription in pencil: "Spychalski Marian circa 1960 minister of national defense since 1963 marshal of Poland". Abrasions of edges, local stains.
M. Spychalski, a.k.a. "Marek", "Orka" (born December 6, 1906 in Lodz, died June 7, 1980 in Warsaw) - Polish communist activist, member of the National National Council and the Legislative Sejm in 1944-1952 (deprived of immunity in October 1951). In 1945, founder of the Warsaw Reconstruction Organization Office transformed into the Capital Reconstruction Office[1]. Between 1950 and 1956 a political prisoner. In 1957-1972 member of the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland of the second, third, fourth and fifth terms, member of the Central Committee and Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) (1956-1970), chairman of the General Council of the Social Fund for Reconstruction of the Capital, president of Warsaw (1944-1945), chairman of the All-Poland Committee of the Front for Unity of the Nation (1968-1971) and chairman of the State Council (1968-1970), member of the secret Central Bureau of the Polish Communists at the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) from July 11, 1944[3], Chief of Staff of the People's Guard (1942), Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of the Polish Army (1944), Chief of the Main Political Board of the Polish Army (1956), in 1949 Minister of Reconstruction and Construction, Minister of National Defense (1956-1968), Marshal of Poland (appointed on October 7, 1963 - he was the last person to be given this rank), architect engineer by education and practice. Builder of People's Poland. (Wikipedia).