Gaevskaya turned to doctors in 1985 and over the next 3 years she received inoperable diagnoses 26 times for various diseases. Gaevskaya was the first official victim of aids in the USSR and she died from pneumocystic pneumonia. (5 September 1988)
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Friday 19th of October 1984 (-) — Catholic priest and martyr Jerzy Popiełuszko is beaten to death by Security Police officers Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, Leszek Pękala and Waldemar Chmielewski. Popiełuszko's body was found 10 days later in the Vistula Water Reservoir. Popiełuszko has been recognized as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church and was beatified on 6 June 2010 by Archbishop Angelo Amato on behalf of Pope Benedictus XVI.