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Word: polese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a smoke-filled basement room in Warsaw's Polytechnic Institute last week, 30 determined young Poles probed deep for the weak spot in Russia's hitherto impregnable Communist empire. No plotters, and meaning to be peaceable, they were asking questions: How much farther can Poland go on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

What made the students and workers wise in their time and situation was not alone the example of Hungary. They also had a belief in a man, once disgraced and imprisoned, almost forgotten a year ago, whose firm defiance of the Russians had shot him up through the crumbling Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

In the days when the Ukraine had been Khrushchev's satrapy, Serov had liquidated hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian peasants. After the 1939 partition of Poland, he had supervised the deportation of 1,500,000 Poles and issued the infamous Order No. 001223, which outlined the proper procedures for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Shadow of Ivan Serov | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

For the Poles, there were some definite gains: the secret police has reportedly been reduced to the status of a counterespionage force, and the hated Ministry of State (Collective) Farms has merged with the Ministry of Agriculture. The press is still shackled, but Voice of America and Radio Free Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Razor's Edge | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Gomulka gradualism has something in it for everybody-a chance for Poles to bring pressure without civil war, a chance for Russia to give concessions while keeping control. Thin-faced Wladyslaw Gomulka was the necessary man in between, an attractive place to stand-if only a man didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Razor's Edge | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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