After the war, in 1945, the village was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime which stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. In 1984, the communist secret police kidnapped priest Jerzy Popiełuszko near Górsk,[4] as he was returning from Bydgoszcz to his parish in Warsaw, and then murdered him in Włocławek.