In 1939 he was drafted for the Polish army, then arrested by the Soviets, spent some time in a jail in Polatsk, eventually sentenced to 10 years and sent away to Komi.
There he joined the Polish Army in the East, being formed under command of General Władysław Anders, just like hundreds of other Belarusians from Western Belarus (Kresy).
After the war he spent some time in England before moving to Munich, Germany in 1951 where he started publishing a magazine in Belarusian.
The piece; "Azimuth of the Heart" was an exhortation and greeting to Belarusian people under Soviet rule "from the compatriots in the free world."
In 1960's several years before his death, he started writing a memoir about the Belarusian soldiers at the Battle of Monte Cassino.