Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swiftly is the cold war moving that the President of the U.S., only 22 days confined to Walter Reed Hospital, came out to find a changed world scene. Workers protesting Communist rule in Poznan, Poland locked arms and marched into the fire of Communist police and militiamen, shouting "We want bread!" and "We want freedom!" (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Poznan revolt clearly heralded more trouble to come for the Communists as their Big Thaw got out of hand. Criticism was pouring into the Kremlin from Communist parties in Britain, Italy, Canada, East Germany, France, the U.S., Belgium; the Kremlin nonetheless...
...prolonged, early-morning blast of locomotive whistles in the Polish industrial city of Poznan that set off a revolt heard round the world. At 7 a.m. one day last week some 30,000 machinists, founders, fitters and laborers of all callings assembled at the locomotive, railroad-car and metallurgical factories on Poznan's outskirts. They were orderly but they were determined, and they had a grievance...
What had been a peaceful mass meeting quickly became a riot. Three truckloads of police, who had been standing by, were mobbed and disarmed. The workers then roared off to Poznan jail to look for their delegates. In the jail they found no delegates, but plenty of political prisoners. They released the politicals and burned the prison records. Still looking for the missing delegation, they marched on the security police headquarters. Here they were driven back by fire hoses...
...four friends-three young men and a dark-haired girl of 20-were passionately interested in aviation. They joined an amateur flying club in Poznan, western Poland, and began to ride the sky in whatever old craft they could lay their hands on. One of the men was a skilled pilot to begin with, and the others soon caught up. All four worked like Russian Stakhanovites on a plane of their own, scrounging parts and trying to make them stick together...