Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months later, after the bloody Poznan riots (TIME, July 9), Poland's desperate Communist bosses had to go further to assuage nationwide discontent. They admitted "immense wrongs" done to the Polish workers, promised widespread pay increases, and even swore by Marx and everything else holy that the Communist Party was about to abandon direct management of the Polish government and economy...
...coffee shop in Poznan one day last week a young girl kissed the hands of an American woman and then told her story. She had been one of hundreds of suspects rounded up by police after the Poznan bread-and freedom-riots a week before (TIME, July 9). They had been herded into an airfield on the outskirts of town and forced to sleep two nights on the floor, had been fed on bread and water. "We are very, very afraid," said another of the Poles in the coffee shop...
Confused Response. The problem of Poznan troubled the Communists too. "The basis for the bloody riots was the dissatisfaction of the workers," the Polish party organ Trybuna Ludu admitted. (The Russian charge that it was all stirred up by the Americans was not repeated in Poznan, where the people knew better.) There were signs of a conflict between Party Secretary Edward Ochab (once described by Stalin as "a Communist with some teeth in him"), who was said to be for reprisals, and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a turncoat Socialist and ex-inmate of Nazi concentration camps (four years in World...
...confusion among the Communists as to how to respond to Poznan had its counterpart outside the Iron Curtain, where admiration for the brave resisters was tempered by the sad realization that they must pay for their defiance and could not be helped. This very human reaction, which was widely shared, was perverted into something else by some British Laborites, who deplored the Poznan uprising as a check to what they deemed to be the beneficient evolution of Communism. Laborite Richard H. S. Crossman, who flits in and out of the Bevan camp like an overgrown lightning bug, was upset that...
National Shrine. In Poznan, workers were back on their jobs full shift, and, as part of the appearance of leniency, were given a first installment "tax rebate" of 1,200,000 zlotys ($300,000 by official rates, $15,000 in fact). An anxious quiet settled over the city...