Word: fiszbach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as the Communist regime prosecuted its own ex-leaders, the party itself continued to crumble from within. Since the crackdown began, 4,000 party members in Warsaw alone have turned in their cards in protest. Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach, a leading liberal, resigned last week. Many others are likely to be expelled as the party executes what Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski called a "purge of opportunists, careerists and immoral people." Totally discredited in the eyes of the public, the party now has an estimated membership of only 2 million, compared with some 3 million before Solidarity was organized...
...first to be detained were hundreds of Solidarity activists, and virtually first among the first was Lech Walesa. Police knocked at his door at 3 a.m. Sunday. He refused to allow them in, demanding the presence of Gdansk Party Secretary Tadeusz Fiszbach, a noted liberal for whom Walesa had respect. As soon as Fiszbach arrived, Walesa gave himself up. He was then taken to the airport and flown to Warsaw, where, according to a government spokesman, "he is being treated with all the respect due the head of Solidarity." Out of his own choice or the government...
...force," and demanded the release of the Solidarity leaders. The army appeared loyal, but its ranks include large numbers of draftees who are sympathetic to Solidarity and sensitive to the country's problems. Only two months ago, just after Jaruzelski took over as Communist Party boss, Gdansk Party Secretary Fiszbach insisted to visiting TIME editors in Warsaw that a declaration of martial law was too dangerous even to contemplate. "I cannot imagine the aftereffects of such a course of events," he said. "Whoever even considers martial law does not take into account his responsibility for the destiny of the nation...
...enforcement. But most authorities still hoped to avoid that drastic step, since it carried with it the danger of violent civil strife and Warsaw Pact intervention. Referring to the bloody suppression of the 1970 Baltic riots, in which several hundred workers were killed, Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach told TIME: "I don't want to imagine the consequences of such a course of action. We say here in Gdansk, 'Never again should we have that experience.' " It will be Jaruzelski's challenging job to prevent it from happening again...
...somewhat more optimistic about the prospects for economic and political reforms. Conscious of their new-found power, the workers felt they probably could meet any attempt by the government to renege on the basic concessions with renewed strikes. The implicit threat was not lost on the authorities. Said Tadeusz Fiszbach, party boss in the Gdansk area: "Only cooperation with the new unions will make our survival possible in a difficult situation...