Word: moczar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congress also elected a new Politburo that further strengthened Gierek's position. Out went three members who had been appointed to the Politburo by Gomulka, notably Jozef Cyrankiewicz, the President of Poland, who is now expected to lose that post too, and Mieczyslaw Moczar, the hard-lining former secret police chief, who was Gierek's possible rival. Gierek, who has sacked some 10,000 middle and lower echelon bureaucrats, hinted that there might be further firings: "For bad work, and even more so for bad will, we must dismiss people from their positions...
...Further downgraded his major rival, former Secret Police Chief Mieczyslaw Moczar, 57, leader of the ultranationalist, anti-Semitic "Partisan" wing of the Polish Communist Party. Moczar, who lost his post as boss of the police and army, in the Central Committee's Secretariat, has been relegated to auditor of government spending, usually a stepping stone to political oblivion...
...Saints. Seeking to clean up the party's image, Gierek in recent weeks has carried out a purge of security agencies. Some 40 officials, several of them allies of Moczar, have been either sacked or arrested on corruption charges. Said Radio Warsaw: "We have exploded another myth-that the Ministry of the Interior is a collection of saints...
Gierek faced a difficult decision. To break the strike would alienate workers and strengthen the position of his chief rival, General Mieczyslaw Moczar, the tough law-and-order security chief who crushed a 1947 Lodz strike in which two workers died and 80 were wounded. The Soviet Union came to Gierek's rescue by offering an estimated $500 million in credits and grain shipments. Buoyed by Soviet help, Gierek was able to cancel the price increases. The Lodz workers went back to work and the rest of the country remained quiet...
...leaders who called the extraordinary meeting of the Politburo last weekend that led to Gomulka's downfall. His own election to the post of party boss was clearly the result of an internal compromise. Raised to full membership in the Politburo was Gomulka's powerful enemy, Mieczyslaw Moczar-who turned 57 on Christmas Day-the xenophobic, rigid hero who is the favorite of Poland's conservatives. Moczar, whose nationalism makes...