Word: ochab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this spring, as part of Poland's contribution to destalinization, Gomulka was let out of house arrest, after more than four years of confinement, and let part way out of the doghouse. Edward Ochab, who now has Gomulka's job as Party Secretary, announced that the charges on which Gomulka had been arrested were false. They were drummed up, said Ochab in Moscow's best voice and most up-to-date explanation of such things, by Polish accomplices of "the Beria gang." Ochab was careful to explain, however, that Gomulka's release "does not mean...
...bloody riots was the dissatisfaction of the workers," the Polish party organ Trybuna Ludu admitted. (The Russian charge that it was all stirred up by the Americans was not repeated in Poznan, where the people knew better.) There were signs of a conflict between Party Secretary Edward Ochab (once described by Stalin as "a Communist with some teeth in him"), who was said to be for reprisals, and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a turncoat Socialist and ex-inmate of Nazi concentration camps (four years in World War II), who was for continuing to ease conditions. Neither apparently disagreed with the notion...
...Hand? In party circles there was violent and (for the first time) anonymous criticism of every phase of the Communist effort. When First Party Secretary Edward Ochab warned against allowing criticism to develop into "hysteria," a young Communist replied in a letter to a newspaper that talk of hysteria was no more than an attempt to stifle criticism...
...Ochab is not the only top Polish Communist to fear that relaxation of controls may be getting out of hand. Some older Communists are continually putting the brakes on; others do not agree that the past was wrong, and although they are willing to accept some changes, they are still clinging to the old line...
...Poland ex-Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Gomulka, arrested at the height of the anti-Tito campaign but never brought to trial, was released from prison along with dozens of other postwar Polish Communist leaders. "This does not mean," said Party Secretary Edward Ochab, "that the party subsequently approves of his political opinions. We admit, however, that his arrest was unjustified." Ochab followed through with a slashing attack on the "cunning sophistry" of Stalin, whom "we regarded as the model of revolutionary virtue...