Word: bierut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of his fellow Communists, said Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, had been "politically blind." What they had not seen was the Red handwriting on the wall: Stalin had slated Poland for all-out economic and military colonization. A purge of the blind was inevitable...
...Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much administrative talent had been axed that President Bierut found it necessary to instruct party officials to avoid "all hasty and imprudent dismissals...
Mikolajczyk writes: "Stalin . . . was angrier than I had ever seen him. He turned on Osobka-Morawski and Bierut [Lublin Poles] and roared a demand that they immediately renew their agreement to the frontier that had been established [secretly in 1944] without the knowledge of the legal Polish government in London. They hurriedly complied. Stalin then turned on Molotov and rebuked him thunderously. 'You had no right to agree to let these people use those waters for their shipping,' he stormed. 'I will not have it! I will not have foreign spies spying on Konigsberg! You know very...
...sins Gomulka was deprived of his job as party secretary general. Into the secretaryship Moscow put Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, another underground graduate who had pretended since his emergence in 1945 that he was aloof from party influences...
...battle against the church may not come for years, until the Communists have consolidated everything else. Poland's Communist President Bierut has stated that the question of whether the present religious freedom will be continued "depends on the attitude of the clergy; on whether they will accept the state of things existing in Poland...