Word: gomulka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the democratic Paris paper L'Aube last week: "If this Cominform meeting had been held two years ago it would have been attended by men like Tito, Rostov, Gomulka, Rajk and Markos, men who have now been shot, imprisoned, threatened or called 'dissident...
Last week Wladyslaw Gomulka, once the country's No. 1 Communist but for some time past under suspicion of being a Titoist, was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee. Vice Minister of Justice Zenon Kliszko and Minister of Construction Spychalski were also kicked out. All were denounced as "masked enemies, provocateurs, saboteurs and traitors"-a few of the epithets currently applied to Titoists by true-blue Stalinists. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, new Soviet proconsul for Poland (TIME, Nov. 21), was elected to the purified Central Committee...
Unhealthy Ambitions. Last September Poland's Vice Premier Wladislaw Gomulka fell into disgrace because he disagreed with Soviet economic plans for Poland. Next to go was Greece's Communist Boss...
Markos Vafiades, who was ousted last February for deviation from the Moscow line. Last week, it was rumored that Hilary Minc, who had succeeded Gomulka as Poland's economic boss, was also on the skids. The most spectacular new outbreak of Titoism occurred in Georgi Dimitrov's own Bulgaria, where Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov was arrested last week with five high Communist officials and 300 lesser fry. Their crime: "Spying...
...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...