Walenty Badylak's Well (Kraków)
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memorial, water well
21 of March in 1980 at this place of the Main Market Square Walenty Badylak, retired Krakow's baker, chained to the well and immolated to protest against destroing of handicraft, demoralization of the youth and the lie about the Katyn's crime, where during WW II the Soviets mordered about 20 thousands of Polish officers, accusing the nazi Germans of doing this felony. In communist era the official propaganda said that the murderers were the Germans.
Wikipedia article: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walenty_Badylak
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Coordinates: 50°3'44"N 19°56'12"E
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