Tomasz Dąbal
Tomasz Dąbal was a Polish communist activist and politician.Life
In 1909–1914, he studied law in Vienna and medicine in Kraków, and he joined the Polish Peasant Party.
In 1917, he was a member of the Polish Legions in World War I.
With Eugeniusz Okoń, he was founder of the Republic of Tarnobrzeg.
He was a politician in the PSL, deputy to Polish Sejm.
He eventually joined the Polish Communist Party. In November 1921 he was stripped of his immunity as a member of the parliament and arrested for anti-state agitation. Sentenced to six years in prison in July 1922, he was exchanged for Polish prisoners in the Soviet Union in 1923. In October 1923 he became vice-president of the Peasant International. After Stalin's rise, he moved to Minsk where he became vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. From 1932 to 1937 he also was a member of the Central Committee of the Belarusian Communist Party. Like most of the Polish communist activists in the Soviet Union he was arrested and executed during the Great Purge - after a confession was extracted from him in which he claimed to have directed the Polish Military Organization in the entire Soviet Union. He was exonerated in 1956.
