Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acknowledged that there could be "other roads to socialism." He had, at Tito's urging, rehabilitated satellite lead ers (sometimes posthumously) who had once defied Stalin. He had permitted "liberalization" of Communism's harsh rule, and when this liberalization had produced not gratitude but open resistance at Poznan, the Kremlin leadership had shown in the Poznan trials that it feared to return to repression. Perhaps Khrushchev could no longer control the forces he had unleashed. The time had come to find out, and the Polish Communists had found the man to make the test...
...misery," said a defense lawyer in a tense Poznan courtroom last week, "stems from the fact that we have not told the truth for many years and that now we must tell it." Then, as the court handed down a series of lenient sentences (18 months to 6 years, and some suspensions) on young men charged with the heinous crime of fighting against the Communist authority, all Poland began to feel that the time might soon come when the truth about Poland would be told. Said an old Communist, blighted by years of purgings: "This is the beginning...
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...
...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 was an effort to establish what the "liberal" Communists believe to be a valid distinction...
...testimony of 19-year-old Wladyslaw Caczkowski. He told how he and a gang of youngsters had ridden from one police station to another in a truck, collecting arms. They had driven out into the country to get more arms, and when they found the roads back to Poznan blocked by tanks they sought refuge at a state farm. There, Caczkowski said, "I realized I had done wrong." So he telephoned for police and surrendered himself. When police came "they treated me as though they were in the SS. They beat me and kicked me after I had given myself...