In memory of Winkler and Masud

Bogdan Klich, later Minister of National Defense and Senator, and then a member of the opposition "Freedom and Peace" Movement, met Jacek Winkler in his apartment in Paris. It was 1987. For several days they discussed long into the night over wine. These were very nutritious conversations.

- His heart was beating with the Polish and Afghan rhythm. It seems to me that he believed that what is happening in Afghanistan has a far-reaching impact on the Polish future. And he was right. The departure of the Red Army from Afghanistan was a prelude to the departure of the Red Army from Eastern Europe - says Bogdan Klich.

Therefore, when in 2008 Polish soldiers - as part of the ISAF forces - took responsibility for the Afghan province of Ghazni, Klich decided to name their main base after Jacek Winkler. With time, the memorial plaque of the legendary commander Masud - killed on September 9, 2001 in Tachara, on the order of the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden - was hung in his mausoleum in the Panchehr valley. In Polish, English and Dari it reads: "To the hero of my youth". - The local population, especially the Tajiks, did not hide their emotions. Among them were bearded, gray-haired old men, Masud's comrades-in-arms, those who took an armed stance against the invaders. I saw tears in their eyes and they also shed tears - recalls Bogdan Klich.

The plaque devoted to Masud still hangs in the valley, the one in memory of Jacek Winkler, after our army left Afghanistan, was transferred to the National Museum in Krakow. The monument was erected for him a few years ago in Milanówek.

(Source: https://dziennikpolski24.pl/jacek-winkler-wojowal-z-sowietami-u-boku-slawnego-lwa-panczsziru/ar/3853305)

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