Word: bienkowski
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...hold out our hand to Russia." But Russia clearly had more faith in the Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut, who according to the Polish Telegraph Agency (the official organ of the London Poles), had been in the Soviet service for some 20 years. Under the name Bienkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the Communist International. Under the name Rutkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the GPU (secret police). The name Bierut was a combination of the first syllable of these two noms de guerre. Bierut's real name...
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