Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But the Poles also want change. If they become disillusioned with Gomulka's performance, or if the Russians think he is being pulled too far, the whole precarious experiment could come crashing down. But things cannot remain immovable. The current of freedom is running deep and wide through Poland...
In the factories, as party control has slipped, so has production. Unpopular bosses have been roughly ridden out of town in wheelbarrows, and there have been some near lynchings. The mood of the country has not been improved by the 36,000 prisoners released from U.B. prisons and the 16...
In the 18th century Poland was partitioned on three occasions, the third partition being successfully resisted for a time under the leadership of the Polish patriot Kosciuzko, only to fall to Russia, Austria and Prussia again. The Congress of Vienna gave Poland nominal independence, but after a period of "watchful...
Gomulka took no part in this. But when the Germans attacked Russia, he petitioned Moscow to be allowed to form a Communist underground in Poland. Moscow did not answer, but after Stalingrad, Stalin put his own plan for a Polish Communist underground into operation. The Communist Party was to be...
The legal government of Poland had its own plans for continuing Poland's fight, and ably executed them. During World War II, some 250,000 Poles and Polish soldiers, escaping through neighboring states, put on Allied uniforms and fought with the French, British and U.S. armies with great distinction...