Word: gomulkaism
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...grimly down on Jerusalem Avenue. There, in the March slush, a mob of 10,000 students from Warsaw's two largest universities converged on the grey building, howling slogans, pelting police with bricks and smashing windows with rock-centered snowballs. Across Poland last week, the regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka gazed in alarm upon similar scenes in what became the country's most menacing riots in eleven years...
...protests were originally ignited by the government's closing of Dziady, an anti-Czarist drama by Adam Mickiewicz (TIME, March 8), but they soon broadened into general dissatisfaction with Gomulka's Soviet-style rule. Spreading from Warsaw, unrest and demonstrations broke out in eight other cities. Students who had started by chanting "Dziady!" were soon crying "Gestapo!" at police and cheering the generalized thaw in Czechoslovakia...
...eight hours that it took to quell the capital's most violent riot, which spread from party headquarters throughout downtown, the collegiate ranks were bolstered by thousands of high school students and some adults-a sign that the calcified Gomulka regime is scarcely more popular off campus than on. As they sacked a movie theater and moved in little knots through Warsaw's side streets, the students began shouting: "Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia!" and "All Poland is waiting for Dubček."-Czechoslovakia's new Communist Party chief...
...pretext of blaming "Zionist elements" for whipping up the unrest, Gomulka's regime intensified a campaign of anti-Semitism that began last summer, when Poland's highly placed Jewish minority balked at siding with the Arabs against Israel. Since then, the Jews' life has been increasingly uncomfortable. Last week the regime conspicuously made public the names of Jewish students arrested during the riots and decided, moreover, to visit the sins of the sons upon the fathers. It fired at least three top officials for their sons' complicity in the riots. In a nation that has often...
When Wladyslaw Gomulka's increasingly restrictive regime recently closed down a classic play called Dziady, the official reason was "hooligan excesses" -meaning that the audience clapped loudest at the anti-Russian lines. Last week Dziady's public grew louder still. Protesting fines slapped on Warsaw University students for demonstrating against the ban, some 3,000 students paraded through the downtown campus for two days shouting slogans. The government's answer: truckloads of helmeted militiamen, who used truncheons and tear gas to try to subdue the demonstrators. To no avail. At week's end, the students took...