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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...