Word: lublin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lecturing in Poland under the auspices of the Ford Foundation, and in Yugoslavia at the invitation of the University of Belgrade, Galbraith will include in his itinerary the University of Warsaw, the University of Cracow, the Catholic University of Lublin, and the Polish Economic Society...
...Sent his "very good wishes" to the people of Communist Poland on the 13th anniversary of the establishment of a provisional Communist government in Lublin after the Russian "liberation" of eastern Poland from the retreating Nazi armies in World...
...only private university in the Communist world (it is under the direct management of the Bishop of Lublin) not only kept itself alive, it also kept alive the last vestiges of real intellectual freedom in Poland. When it reopened its doors in 1944 after the Nazis had used it for a barracks and a hospital, students flocked to it from all over the country, and many of Poland's leading scholars joined its faculty. The Communists never dared shut it down, consoled themselves with the fact that one partially free university was good for propaganda value in the outside...
Despised Ghetto. By 1950, hundreds of students had learned what it means to be interrogated by the secret police. Lublin graduates found it increasingly hard to find jobs, and the faculty found it almost impossible to get their research published. The government closed the law school and the department of education. It imprisoned four professors, barred three more from teaching, in 1951 sent popular Father Antony Slomkowski, then rector, to jail. "We were," says Rector Rechowicz, "a ghetto, an isolated despised ghetto that was allowed not to live but to exist...
...spite of all the pressures. Lublin never really surrendered to the Red regime. It taught Greek, Latin, French, German and English-but not a word of Russian. It was for a time the only university to offer sociology, the only place to teach economics that was not, as one professor puts it, "all class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat." Though cautious, many professors found ways to get around the Communists...