Word: antisocialists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June the Soviet Central Committee sent Warsaw a letter, as ominous as a drum roll, that criticized by name the Polish Communists for tolerating counterrevolution: "We are disturbed by the fact that the offensive by antisocialist enemy forces in Poland threatens the interests of our entire commonwealth and the security of its borders?yes, our common security." In early July, a chill settled over Warsaw: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dourly descended upon the Polish capital with yet another admonition against any liberalizing tendency within the party...
...Poland, for Poland as a free and independent state ... From the first days of [your] crisis, we deemed it important that the [Polish] party decisively resist attempts by the enemies of socialism to take advantage of [your] difficulties. But this has not been done at all. Constant concessions to antisocialist forces and their demands have led to a retreat by the Polish party, step by step, under pressure of domestic counterrevolution...
Respected comrades, we are not guided solely by our concern over the situation of fraternal Poland, or the conditions and future prospects for Soviet-Polish cooperation. To no less an extent, we are disturbed by the fact that the offensive by antisocialist enemy forces in Poland threatens the interests of our entire commonwealth and the security of its borders - yes, our common security. The Polish party thus not only bears a historic responsibility for the fate of its own country; comrades, you also bear an enormous responsibility for the common interests of the socialist commonwealth...
...founded. In his tough speech to party members, Kania declared: "We register our categorical opposition to all attempts at inciting the countryside, at sowing anarchy, or creating a political opposition." Among the organizers of the new farmers' movement, Kania charged, were "those who make no secret of their antisocialist or-to put it bluntly -counterrevolutionary designs...
There was little doubt about the motivation behind the determined harmony inside Poland: the continuing menace of 55 Soviet divisions that remained poised within striking distance of Poland's borders. On New Year's Day, in fact, TASS issued a communiqué that accused "antisocialist forces" in Solidarity of seeking "to push matters to the point of chaos in the economy, hoping to further their subversive aims...