Word: prostu
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...demonstrate what he planned, Gomulka expelled from the party ten members of the board of editors of Po Prostu, the free-speaking newspaper that had demanded more freedom, balanced these by ousting a Stalinist provincial party secretary and four of his lieutenants in Koszalin. Declared Gomulka: "The party does not intend to close the wide-open doors of democratic freedom. But it must watch these doors more closely than in the past...
...riots started when 2,000 students met at the big student hostelry on downtown Narutowicza Square to protest the action of Wladyslaw Gomulka's press-control office in banning the country's boldest and best-known crusading student weekly, Po Prostu (Plain Speaking). Po Prostu had zealously supported Gomulka in his stand against Nikita Khrushchev and the rest of Poland's Soviet overlords last year, but since then had lent its own voice to the rising crescendo of intellectual discontent with the slow pace of Gomulka's democratization...
Badge of Honor. The police's brutality aroused many who had been only mildly concerned over the fate of Po Prostu, and the next night a larger throng gathered in Narutowicza Square. The students flaunted their bandages as badges of honor. In the shadow of the Church of Swietego Jakuba the rioters played a kind of reckless Warsaw pingpong with the police, picking up their tear-gas bombs and hurling them back into their ranks...
Gomulka announced that the ban on Po Prostu would remain, and called a meeting of all Warsaw editors to demand greater conformity. The students retaliated by hanging a large banner from their largest hostel bearing a two-word demand: "Free Speech...
...most courageous journalists in Poland, Lasota has boosted Po Prostu's circulation from 30,000 to 150,000 since taking over as editor in January 1956, says he could quadruple circulation if he had the newsprint. His first act as editor was to fire Po Prostu's staff, since, as, he explained, "It's easier to teach people with ideas how to write than to teach journalists how to have ideas." Packed with ideas, Po Prostu has battled successfully for new youth organizations free of domination by "tired-out" party hacks, attacked Stalinist "reactionaries," urged sweeping reforms...