Internal Military Service
Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna - or WSW, Military Internal Service, it was a military counterintelligence, military police, and secret police Service during the years of 1957-1990 in the Polish People's Republic or PRL.
Read more about Internal Military Service: Creation of WSW, Bibliography/sources
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