Английская Википедия:Assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz

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Gabriel Narutowicz, the first president of Poland after regaining independence, was assassinated on 16 December 1922, five days after taking office, aged 57.Шаблон:Sfn He was fatally shot by Eligiusz Niewiadomski, an artist and art critic, while visiting an exhibition at Warsaw's Zachęta gallery.

Background

Poland regained independence in 1918 in the aftermath of World War I. Soon afterwards, Gabriel Narutowicz, professor of engineering, became one of the left-wing leaders in the Sejm (Polish parliament).Шаблон:Sfn

Following the 1921 March Constitution of Poland and the November 1922 Polish legislative election, Narutowicz was elected the first president of Poland in the Polish presidential election, 9 December 1922.Шаблон:Sfn His election was not accepted by the right-wing nationalist endecja faction, which staged a number of protests.Шаблон:Sfn Narutowicz's forthcoming murder would be the culmination of an aggressive, right wing and anti-semitic propaganda campaign vilifying him; in the background of street protests he was described, by a hostile press, an atheist, a Freemason and a Jew.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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Narutowicz in 1922

Assassination

Five days after taking office, while attending an art exhibition in the Warsaw's National Gallery of Art "Zachęta", Narutowicz was assassinated during a conversation with a British envoy.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The assassin was a painter, Eligiusz Niewiadomski, who fired three shots at the president.Шаблон:Sfn

Aftermath

Niewiadomski had connections with the right wing National Democratic Party.Шаблон:Sfn During his trial, Niewiadomski stated that he wanted to kill Józef Piłsudski originally, but assassinating his ally, Narutowicz, was "a step in the fight for Polishness and for the nation."Шаблон:Sfn Niewiadomski was sentenced to death. His state execution took place outside the Warsaw Citadel on 31 January.Шаблон:Sfn Part of the right-wing camp perceived Niewiadomski as a hero. Nationalistic press and some historians kept portraying Niewiadomski in positive light, writing about his "heroic stand", "sacred convictions, "patriotic duty" and such.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Within months, his grave became a right-wing shrine, and "more than three hundred babies baptized in Warsaw were given the uncommon name Eligiusz".Шаблон:Sfn

The murder of the first president of the Second Polish Republic and the angry canvassing against him revealed the fragility of democratic mechanisms in Poland at that time.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The murder of Narutowicz served as the inspiration and a main theme for a number of works.Шаблон:Sfn They include the 1977 Polish feature film Death of a President (Polish: Śmierć prezydenta), directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and Wilhelm Sasnal's 2003 painting Narutowicz.Шаблон:Sfn

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