Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being shown again for the first time since the Communists took control of the country. Both the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations are arranging grants to provide exchange students. One of the most dramatic examples of the new policy at work was the success of the American exhibit at the Poznan Fair (TIME, June...
...months since Polish workers rose at Poznan crying for bread and freedom, the Poles have won half a loaf of freedom but very little bread. Out of their protests, Wladyslaw Gomulka rose to power, wrested control of the Polish Communist Party from the Stalinists, defied Moscow and won an election. But he inherited a mess: Poland was close to economic bankruptcy and moral anarchy. For all he tried to revive the Poles' fierce national pride and to relax the grip of the police state, Communist Gomulka found no Red formula to solve the economic crisis...
Your article on the International Trade Fair at Poznan painted the American participation as a great success. To an impartial observer, it seems that U.S. propaganda against Communism may be called "consumer-goods propaganda" because it is based on the endless repetition of the affirmation of high American living standards. This is like the rich man's bragging about his richness before poor people who can never become rich. What the people behind the Iron Curtain really need is for the U.S. to get rid of the Communist yoke-and not an exhibition of U.S. consumer goods...
...hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist putschs in Poznan and Hungary," and "its relations with so-called Marxist Parties of Poland, Italy, Japan...
Bleak Existence. Switzerland's reliable Neue Zürcher Zeitung two weeks ago reported that Czechoslovakia, whose leaders have resisted liberalization more stubbornly than anyone else in Eastern Europe, is in a state comparable to "that of Poland just before the rising in Poznan." Yet Czechoslovakia, Central Europe's most prosperous nation, has long been regarded as the least revolt-minded of the satellites...