Word: gomulkaism
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...Gomulka has shown himself increasingly jumpy over press criticism, and the students found the square thick with steel-helmeted police. The police and militia did not wait for speeches or explanations. They ordered the students to disperse, then waded in with rubber truncheons swinging, viciously clubbed many students who refused to leave...
...Speech!" Most Poles seemed to regard the riots as a strictly student affair. Biggest unknown was whether the students' protests would be taken up by Poland's well-organized and politically conscious factory workers, who had been in the forefront of the Poznan rebellion. If they were, Gomulka would find himself in serious trouble. So far, most major factory-workers units refused to sign petitions calling on the students to desist...
...Gomulka announced that the ban on Po Prostu would remain, and called a meeting of all Warsaw editors to demand greater conformity. The students retaliated by hanging a large banner from their largest hostel bearing a two-word demand: "Free Speech...
...riots were only the outward expression of an intellectual ferment which has seethed through Poland ever since Gomulka declared his provisional independence from Moscow. Its unquestioned leader is a gawky, 36-year-old political philosopher whose devastating attacks on the Russians' brand of Communism have already made him a hero to Poland's students. "Leszek Kolakowski," said one ardent young Communist last week, "is much more important for Polish intellectual development than Khrushchev's speech...
...Soviet 20th Party Congress, Kolakowski had established himself as the leader of the group of passionate dissenters now known as the enragés ("the enraged ones"). Last month, in Warsaw's Nowa Kultura, Kolakowski published a four-part critique that flays the Soviet order, and inferentially Wladyslaw Gomulka, with the cold-steel precision of a surgical scalpel...