Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Polish for Little Pests
Restored Capitalism. China has remained relatively moderate in its official references to the Soviet Union. After the Polish riots, however, the official party newspaper People's Daily gleefully described the uprising as proof that "the colonial rule of Soviet revisionist social imperialism in East Europe has fallen into a crisis, and that modern revisionism has gone further bankrupt." Poland, the Peking paper added, had become a "dependency of Soviet revisionism." For those comments, the Soviet party newspaper Pravda last week blasted China for "impudent interference" in Poland's internal affairs...
...successor: Edward Gierek, 57, the tall, burly boss of the Silesian mining area. Russia's Leonid Brezhnev hailed his new opposite number in Poland as "a sincere friend of the Soviet Union and a staunch international Communist." Germany's gruff old Walter Ulbricht, who has opposed recent Polish efforts at détente, proposed "close comradely ties." From all parts of Poland-and from almost all sectors of its party structure-came telegrams of felicitation and support. Politely, none of the encomiums touched on the most relevant fact of the revolt: that workers, in a so-called workers...
...great surprise that the Italian Communists should be so quick to criticize the errors of their Polish comrades; they are a rather special breed. Emilia-Romagna is one of 15 Italian regions that last June elected semiautonomous governments under a nationwide decentralization program -and the only one in which the Communists and their allies won a majority. Rather than use their new-found power to try to cast the region along orthodox Marxist lines, the Emilia-Romagna Communists-who have been the dominant political force in the so-called "red belt" of central Italy since World War II-have chosen...
After World War I, he began to work as a Communist labor organizer and in 1932 received the first of his many jail sentences from a right-wing Polish government. All told, Gomulka has spent about ten years of his life in confinement or prison. When Warsaw surrendered to the Germans at the onset of World War II, Gomulka joined the resistance movement under the Soviet aegis. At war's end, he became First Secretary of the party and a minister in Poland's new Communist-dominated Government of National Unity. But Gomulka, an ardent nationalist as well...