Władysław Machejek (February 25, 1920 – December 21, 1991) was a communist official, writer, publicist and hoax artist during the Stalinist reign of terror in Poland following World War II.

[3][4] He was selected editor-in-chief of Życie Literackie magazine under Stalinism (1952) and became a prolific writer of ideological propaganda and coarse, often embarrassing polemics supporting the communist party line.

[5] His most infamous book Rano przeszedł huragan (In the Morning There Came A Hurricane) published in 1955 presented purported crimes in the Podhale region committed by the Ogniowcy partisan units under Józef Kuraś.

In an often coarse and even primitive prose,[5] Machejek painted Poland's anti-communists as motley crew of bloodthirsty anti-Semites who killed Jews, persecuted the Slovak population of the region and who preyed on innocent people.

According to Barańczak, Machejek's style was a mixture of the worst elements of socialist (communist) literature, namely coarse language of an uneducated man mixed with the pompous and complex officialese of the Party.