Word: gomulkaism
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Behind these attacks on Tito-whom the Soviets had no real hope of bringing to heel-lay Khrushchev's determination to stamp out "revisionism" in the satellites, and particularly in Wladyslaw Gomulka's Poland, the one nation in the Soviet bloc that has managed to achieve some scant room for maneuver within the bonds of Russian domination. With their customary stubbornness, the Poles had at first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after...
This was a gallant performance and one well calculated to enhance Gomulka's prestige with the Polish people. But it was not practical politics. Khrushchev might hesitate to use military force against the Poles (who number 28 million against Hungary's 10 million), but he could well bring Poland to its knees in a matter of weeks by cutting off the raw materials on which the Polish economy depends. Accordingly, at week's end, Gomulka beat a retreat. The Nagy and Maleter executions, he declared, were "Hungary's internal affair," and "the attitude of the Yugoslav...
...proved to have a momentum its authors had not bargained for. To their dismay, the Soviets discovered that the gift of a little freedom simply whetted their subjects' appetite for more. One result: bloody revolution in Hungary. Another: the rise to power in Poland of "National Communist" Wladyslaw Gomulka, who accepted aid from the U.S., reached a modus vivendi with the Vatican, and ruled with the toleration of restive Poles, who did not wish another Budapest...
...reversing himself, he was capable of reaching it on his own. In true Communist fashion he chose to serve notice of his decision not in a proclamation but in action-the execution of Nagy, Maleter & Co. Nor did anyone in the Communist world miss the point. Poland's Gomulka, described by his associates as "broken and bitter," saw no one for hours after the news reached Warsaw...
...need for a proclaimed unanimity in the satellites works hardest on Poland's Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Last week he paid his first visit to Budapest since the 1956 popular risings. At the airport he shook hands stiffly with Janos...