Word: poznan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Under the eyes of a score of correspond ents and legal observers from Western countries they told pitiable tales of misery and desperation (TIME, Oct. 8). But the key manipulators of the trials were the civil defense lawyers who skillfully brought out in evidence everything the Poznan demonstrators had wanted to tell to the world...
...them hooligans and criminal elements. But since the revolution was won, they are national heroes, and their picture has become a symbol of revolution." Hejmowski's meaning was clear: when the "revolution," i.e., Po land's break away from the Russians, is consummated the defendants in the Poznan court might well become heroes...
...Mikoyan and other top anti-Stalinists, who believe that a certain autonomy must be given the satellite and foreign parties-and have been giving it. .Khrushchev's spectacular destalinization program launched last February gave him a dramatic lead over the old-line Stalin ists, but since then the Poznan riots (see box) and Soviet army leaders' nervousness about losing grip in the satellites are reckoned to have set him back...
...festering misery and hatred of the Polish people for what they have suffered under Communism broke dramatically into the light of day last week. Twelve young men, brought to trial for their part in the revolt of factory workers at Poznan (TIME, July 9, et seq.)poured forth a torrent of testimony against the secret police and the Communist system. From court, and prosecution as well, came verification that some of the testimony-of police brutality, of enforced hunger, of officially induced lying-was indeed true. Paradoxically, the evidence was made possible by the Polish Communist Party itself. With...