Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the frame of mind which the Polish Communists had deliberately set out to create when they decreed free and fair trials, unprecedented in a Communist country, for the rioters of Poznan...
...surprised when the government halted the public spectacle last week. The trials (of 22 defendants in 2½ weeks) had served their purpose by giving expression to two momentous conflicts that are now going on in Poland. One is the already old and durable struggle between the Polish people and their oppressors. The other is a new and ferocious conflict among the Polish Communists themselves...
...section of the Polish Communist Party is committed to a course of liberating Poland, not from Communism but from the brand of Communist satellitism thrust on Poland by the Russians. These "liberal" Communists are young and few in number outside Warsaw, though for the moment they wield a dominating influence in the regime. They are handicapped, first by the fact that Stalin's purging of the Polish party has left them few competent leaders, and secondly by the fact that the Polish people are in no mood to make a distinction between "good" and "bad" Communists. The Poznan trial...
...Russian Communists have a simple formula for dealing with troublemakers like the Polish workers of Poznan who rioted last June: a monster show trial with ranting charges of espionage, counterrevolution, tame confessions and abject apologies. Confronted with the case of the Poznan rioters, the Polish Communists, enjoying a measure of autonomy for the first time, thought they had a better idea: a free and fair trial to show that their regime had merit. But last week, after eight days of free and fair evidence of life under Communism, the embarrassed Polish Communists began desperately seeking a way to curtail...
...workers' banners had read "Bread and Freedom." Rioters had shouted, "Out with the Russians!", "Down with the government ! " One of the accused had seen Polish soldiers shooting at the U.B. (secret police). Another said he had had no trouble getting arms because the ordinary police turned them over willingly. There was a professor of psychology, called as an expert, who testified that "hatred of the U.B. got out of bounds." Comes the Revolution. Keynoting the Polish civilian attitude to the riots, Defense Lawyer Stanislaw Hejmowski said he was reminded of Delacroix's famous painting...