Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Warsaw's claims of normality were buffeted on several fronts last week. In the western city of Poznan, site of the bloody "bread and freedom" riots of 1956, 194 protesters were reportedly jailed after marching through the streets bearing leaflets proclaiming DEATH TO THE REDS. In a Warsaw streetcar, a police sergeant was gravely wounded when an unidentified attacker shot him in the stomach and fled. In addition, a number of minor bombings were reported...
Poland's military bosses call Poznan their model city. While the workers of Gdansk, Warsaw and Katowice resisted, rioting and striking, after martial law was declared on Dec. 13, not a ripple of unrest was reported in the industrial center 175 miles west of the capital. Indeed, Zdzislaw Rozwalak, the leader of the local Solidarity chapter, had promptly furnished the state radio with a statement of support for martial law and condemned the union's behavior. Thus the regime of Wojciech Jaruzelski last week confidently chose Poznan as the showcase site for the first officially organized foreign press...
...role, it was the local party bureaucrats, who have been widely accused of corruption and inefficiency. Many of these officials have deliberately obstructed the reform process in order to protect their own jobs and privileges. The army's arrival now threatens to expose such abuses. Reporting from the Poznan region last week, one officer accused local authorities of "culpable indolence in organizing supplies...
...democratic opposition in the late seventies--KOR--Committee for the Defense of Workers--underground publishing, the "Flying University", etc. Moreover, right after August my case even became one of Solidarity's first victories. Due to pressure from the newly-formed union, I was triumphantly reinstated to my job at Poznan University. As such, I should have expected that "under Western eyes" I would seem sort of a living example of what has happened in Poland. However, in the back of my mind I nourished a hope that after my turbulent Polish years I finally would have an opportunity to stop...
...said that while several of the KOR members have already or will assume positions with Solidarity now that KOR has folded, he himself will take no official post with the union. He added, however, that he has "very strong contacts with a branch of Solidarity" in his hometown of Poznan and will continue to communicate with members of the union...