Word: gomulkaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last October the quiet revolution came to Morawice. The people of the village heard newly appointed Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka say on the radio that no more money would be spent subsidizing collectives. Says Zofia Szczygiel: "Everybody out in the fields threw down their tools and went home for a drink of vodka. Then they went and got their tools again and started marking out their claims to private property." A village committee soon ironed out the boundary disputes, and by the time Gomulka got around to acknowledging the end of forced collectivization, Victoria had ceased to exist...
...moment of his triumph last October, Wladyslaw Gomulka cried: "The Polish people can now trust their army. It is subordinate to its own government." Gomulka dismissed Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky as Poland's Minister of Defense, sent some 50 Soviet "advisers" back to Moscow, and replaced the army's Soviet-styled uniforms with others more distinctively Polish. But last week a top Polish official admitted that even these concessions had failed to mollify the bristling patriotism of Poland's soldiers, who seemed dissatisfied not only with Gomulka's uneasy halfway house of independence, but with Communism...
...they had gone too far. The mild-mannered, hollow-cheeked Gomulka, who had tried to steer a middle course between the extremists of both sides, was stung into an electrifying attack on the Stalinists. "Why, Comrade Mijal," asked Gomulka, "do you all the time insist on including references to the Soviet Union supremacy? We had the example of Rakosi and Gero always using such phrases, and it ended with Soviet tanks at the head of Budapest streets." Confusion fell among the Stalinists when 'one of their number, Franciszek Mazur, a recognized Kremlin agent who flits regularly between Moscow...
...week's end Gomulka was still very much boss of Poland. He had shown the same kind of stubborn resistance to attack that he had displayed last October, confirming the impression that he is a man who reacts best in a crisis. Once again the Stalinists had been routed, but the vital question they had raised had still to be answered: Can a Communist Party govern successfully without Kremlin support or an extensive police system, make concessions to private enterprise and the church and remain a Communist Party...
...required the presence of Poland's accredited envoy at the Holy See, who represents not the present Communist regime but the World War II, right-wing government in exile, still hanging on in London. This would have embarrassed Wyszynski in his dealings with the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. But insiders who know the importance of ceremonial minutiae at the Vatican could see tacit support of the exiles for the cardinal in the presence of their spiritual adviser, Archbishop Josef Gawlina, Ordinary to the Poles-in-exile...