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It is October 19, 1984. It is night. The parish priest of a parish in Warsaw is driving in a car with his bodyguard, a former paratrooper. The priest needed a bodyguard because he was known for his anti-communism. He was also the unofficial priest of the Warsaw Steelworks and held so-called masses for the homeland. Three agents of the Ministry of the Interior ambushed him, strangled him, and threw him into a water tank. But the bodyguard-paratrooper managed to jump out of the car, escape the agents, and remain a witness to the murder, about which he began to spread the story. The search for the priest's body lasted 11 days, and the authorities announced that unknown perpetrators were responsible. 300,000 people attended the funeral, who, after three years of forced isolation, were addressed by the head of the Solidarity trade union, Lech Walesa. General Jaruzelski became worried and had to act...