Word: krosno
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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Wladyslaw Gomulka, the son of a hardworking Socialist oil worker from Krosno, was 38 when the Russians and Germans invaded Poland. (Before he was born, his father had emigrated to the U.S., but returned when he discovered that the streets were not paved with gold.) Wladyslaw Gomulka in twelve years in the party had done all the things that Communists do, infiltrated trade unions, spread propaganda under the name of Comrade Duniak. He had been sentenced to four years "for arousing mobs to a dangerous state" and for conspiracy against the state, and shared a cell with six other Communists...
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