Word: gomulkaism
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...ways to foul up the festivities. And now, even after the millennium has come to a quiet end, the squabble between church and state is as noisy as ever. Last week adamant Arch bishop Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski was once again at loggerheads with the tough secular party boss, Wladyslaw Gomulka. This time the issue was state regulation of seminaries...
...heady days of October 1956, Polish intellectuals eagerly supported Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's stand against the Stalinists in the belief that free expression would flow under his new regime. It did, but only briefly and within strict limits. During much of the past decade, writers and artists have found Gomulka's rule arid and intolerant...
Ironically, the gesture deprived Gomulka of some of the most anticlerical Communist writers, who might have sided with him in the regime's latest confrontation with the Roman Catholic Church. For eight long months this year, the regime fumed as the church's millennium was celebrated by millions of Poles. No sooner were the ceremonies over last month than Gomulka felt he could safely hazard his revenge. It took the form of a demand for the removal of six rectors of seminaries that had refused to submit to government inspection and control of their curriculums...
What was up in the Kremlin? Into Moscow last week flew Hungary's Party Secretary Janos Kadar and Premier Gyula Kallai. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Jozef Cyrankiewicz, already in town, suddenly decided to prolong their visit, and Czech President Antonin Novotny was due to arrive early this week. The presence of so many Red leaders set off a flurry of speculation. Had they been called to prepare the groundwork for expulsion of Red China from the international Communist movement? Was it some sort of a summit session on East-West relations or nuclear arms control...
...authorities to stop fearing us and start loving us"), some 1,000 angry student demonstrators marched on party headquarters, defiantly shouting church slogans and singing the national anthem. They were scattered by police armed with tear gas and rubber truncheons. But it seemed unlikely that Wladyslaw Gomulka had heard the last of the protest...