A printed armband of the Ochotnicza Rezerwa Milicji Obywatelskiej (ORMO or the Volunteer Reserve Militia). ORMO was a volunteer paramilitary support brigade of the Milicja Obywatelska (MO or Polish communist police force). ORMO itself was founded in the People's Republic of Poland soon after the Soviet takeover in 1946, and became infamous as an instrument of repression in communist Poland until it was disbanded in 1989 by the Sejm (Polish parliament) after the Collapse of the communist bloc.
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