Word: gomulka
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...Gomulka regime is in power primarily because of its symbolic position of opposition to the universally hated Russians, Brzezinski says. Yet it must, and at the moment even wants to, continue close ties with its rejected Kremlin masters...
Brzezinski was in Poland from the beginning of June to mid-July on a Social Science Research Council grant to study the pattern of Polish politics, particularly Gomulka's rise to power. He has already written one article, to be published soon, and will incorporate his findings into a larger study he is pursuing on Soviet-Satellite relations...
With a nervous eye on Moscow (whose press gave the meeting minimal coverage), the two "nationalist Communists" said nothing aloud to offend the Russians. Gomulka was careful to pay thanks to "the heroic Soviet army" for Poland's liberation from the Nazis, and to make regular reference to "the solidarity of international socialist forces." Yet the fact of their meeting was evidence of more cracks in the once monolithic unity of Kremlin Communism...
...right foot, Tito characteristically hit on a diplomatic device that cost him nothing at all. At a luncheon for Gomulka, Tito blandly wound up a lengthy toast with the statement that he considered "the present Polish-German frontier on the Oder and the Neisse the only lasting solution...
Tito's toast to Gomulka would then be something that the Russians, instead of the Germans, might find hard to swallow...