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...million. Russia has offered Kadar a $50 million stopgap loan (in convertible currencies) and promised a new $200 million loan for food grains, oil and raw materials. The Petofi Club, where the revolution sparked, has been replaced by the Tancsics Club, whose meager membership is made up of old Stalinist hangers...
...been, in the past, the real government of Poland). The Sejm buzzed with excitement the first time two hands were raised in abstention. After this first tentative show of independence, few State Council candidates got unanimous support. One Catholic writer collected seven abstentions and a former active Stalinist got two outright nays. The worst treatment was given former Stalin Prizewinner Leon Kruczkowski, who hit four nays and seven abstentions. But the most excitement was caused by a single vote raised against the re-election of Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. Said the man who cast the vote: "I just...
Under Poland's Stalinist brand of Communism, religious instruction was barely tolerated, and Catholic parents were pressured (through threats of losing their jobs, chicanery over taxes, etc.) to keep their children from religion classes. The one weekly hour of instruction was usually set at an inconvenient time; often it was canceled entirely. Even so, the faith did not go untaught. In one school, when religious instruction was eliminated, the children insisted on praying together before beginning their lessons. When crucifixes were removed from the classrooms of another school, the pupils arranged to take turns bringing a crucifix from home...
...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 in agricultural policy (later adopted in large part by Party Secretary Gomulka) that include virtual liquidation of Russian-type collective farming in favor of new incentives for independent farmers...
...from Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's prophetic novel about the sterile lives of "unpersons" in a totalitarian society. Another magazine carried a lengthy review of ex-Communist Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, hailed his savage exposition of Communist terrorism as "a very thorough analysis of Stalinist methods." Other papers have run glowing stories on the "truly democratic" U.S. and Western prosperity. The Culture Ministry's official organ recently published an article on the U.S. economy by a Communist official who noted sardonically that he "prefers imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka...