Word: bezpieka
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Gomulka's real crime had been his demand that the U.S.S.R. respect Polish sovereignty and let the Poles find their own "road to Socialism," but the Bezpieka, Poland's security police, did its best to persuade Gomulka to confess to a formal charge of "lack of vigilance with regard to enemy agents." Instead of confessing, bullheaded Wladyslaw Gomulka counterattacked his interrogators with such vigor and skill that in the end the party had to abandon its plans to use him as the pièce de résistance in a show trial of Polish Titoists...
...night last week, the girl and the three men began to act strangely for simple aviation enthusiasts. Around 2 a.m., they crept quietly along the barbed-wire fence of the sleepy airport, sneaked on to the field without alarming the Communist state-security police, the MVD-trained Bezpieka. They got to the plane, turned over the engine and crowded into the cabin...
...Then the Bezpieka sounded the alarm. Guards rushed up, tried to pull the four out of the plane, but two of the men and the girl beat the guards off while the pilot gunned the rachitic engine, and got the plane rolling across the field. The guards' bullets nicked the craft, but the doughty little plane took off, anyway...
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