Word: sejm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret police has reportedly been reduced to the status of a counterespionage force, and the hated Ministry of State (Collective) Farms has merged with the Ministry of Agriculture. The press is still shackled, but Voice of America and Radio Free Europe broadcasts are no longer to be jammed. The Sejm (Parliament) enacted a new electoral law which promised liberalized, if not "free," elections in January. In Moscow Gomulka negotiated for more wheat and coal...
Poland went to the polls last week to elect its first Sejm (Parliament) under the new constitution of the Polish People's [Communist] Republic. There was no fuss, no muss, and no opposition. Voters were handed pink cards containing the names of but one ticket, led by Communist President Boleslaw Bierut. Then they were told to fold and drop the card into an urn. An area was screened off where voters, if they wished, could go to cross off any names on the card. Few did, in the face of a warning: "Those who deliberately impair the unity...