Word: lomianki
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...schoolhouse at Lomianki, a village twelve miles from Warsaw, the desks had been pushed to the wall to make a waiting room for the peasants who had come to vote for the first time since 1935. Each was handed a ballot marked "3" (the number of the Communist-dominated Government bloc) by the election chairman. When asked if he had ballots for all parties, the chairman apologized, saying that he had just run out of "5," in that district the number of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's opposition Polish Peasant Party. He added that 70% of the people had voted openly...
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