Word: putraments
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...government slate of potential delegates, and sent a more independent and distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within the union, was narrowly re-elected to the committee by a single vote-and only because some of his prominent opponents happened to be out of the hall at the time...
There is usually one Communist who knows the way the wind is blowing long before the official weather vanes swing into line. In stormy Poland he is a longtime Stalinist timeserver named Jerzy Putrament. When Wladyslaw Gomulka broke with Moscow last October, Comrade Putrament was so enthusiastic in Gomulka's support that Pravda publicly rebuked him for saying that he preferred "imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka." Last month Weatherman Putrament held up a moist forefinger and got the feel of a new breeze blowing through Poland. The country, he said forthwith, was drifting away from...
...Putrament's forecast was hardly in print before the Politburo was directing all Polish Communists to fight on two fronts: against "sectarians," a discreet new name for the Stalinists, and against "revisionists," the derogatory new name for the liberal hopefuls. By last week it was becoming clearer that the brunt of the attack is being borne by the revisionists...
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