Word: kruczkowski
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...with excitement the first time two hands were raised in abstention. After this first tentative show of independence, few State Council candidates got unanimous support. One Catholic writer collected seven abstentions and a former active Stalinist got two outright nays. The worst treatment was given former Stalin Prizewinner Leon Kruczkowski, who hit four nays and seven abstentions. But the most excitement was caused by a single vote raised against the re-election of Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. Said the man who cast the vote: "I just don't like him." Nothing like it had happened in Poland in a long...
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