Word: cracow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cracow to Kilimanjaro. When the Red armies slogged in to "protect" Eastern Poland in 1939, Jan Olechny was sure the Russians would take action against antiCommunists. One chilly morning he said goodbye to his wife and twelve-year-old son Riszard, set out with a knapsack to walk through the lines and join some cousins in German-held Cracow...
...Premier, rejected Gomulka's invitation. He said: "Our party is and will be needed and is of benefit to the Polish nation." Delegates broke into prolonged cheering, winding up with a spirited singing of The Red Banner, which is the Polish Socialist hymn. And when Boleslaw Drobner, Cracow's short, walrus-mustached Socialist leader who always wears a black worker's jerkin, added, "We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our affairs," the demonstration was trebled in noise and duration. With a decisive no, the Socialists rejected Gomulka's suggestion...
...Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party. Wrote Warsaw's Communist paper, in a blood-chilling front-page editorial titled The Analogy: "In Bulgaria, the leader of reaction, Nikola Petkoff [see above] has been seated on the defendant's bench next to his subordinate, Ivanoff. In Cracow, Mierzwa [Mikolajczyk's subordinate in the Polish Peasant Party] is seated on the bench. Will the similarity of events end there...
...apparently tubercular beyond the point of attempting work. At Vienna, University officials announced the end of UNNRA aid to its assembled undergraduate body, and watched the determination in bodies that must undergo a greater fight against winter and loss of health than they had sustained against the Nazis. In Cracow, men and women at the Academy gathered in the lone building that had escaped the Nazis and heard the same announcement. To them it meant a further cut in rations that stood, in midwinter of 1946-47, at 600 to 800 calories per day. American doctors claim adult humans cannot...
...Eastern Front, the Germans had been devastatingly thorough. The old, walled Polish city of Cracow remained, in a sea of flattened middle-European towns. Kiev went the way of Warsaw, and with it the onion-domed Pechersk Lavra (cave monastery) which was the first fountainhead of Russian Christianity...