Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grab & Give. Stalin had attempted his "final" solution to the Polish-Russian question at the Potsdam peace table. He had already annexed a huge tract of Polish territory in the east (see map), and as compensation he now sliced most of Pomerania from Germany and "gave" it to Poland. Pretending that the Poles had gained materially from this deal, he demanded that Polish coal exports be sold to Russia at a nominal price per ton (about one-seventh the market price). He also arranged that Germany should pay Poland reparations, but these he collected himself. He then forced the Poles...
Thus to the deep Polish hatred of the Nazi conqueror, Stalin added a boundary quarrel to make certain that Germany and Poland should have cause to resent one another eternally and thus preclude any secret alliances. Gomulka was put in charge of the new western territory taken from the Germans. He did Soviet bidding, though he was distressed by Russia's dismantling and removal of factories. "I fought against the Germans," he once told a group of peasants. "I will not allow Poland to become the 17th Soviet Republic...
...word was coined for this kind of view: Titoism. Tito has once met Gomulka, who made "a very favorable impression. He is a worker, rather modest and reticent." Gomulka was less impressed by the vain Tito, privately referred to him as "a fat swine." When Stalin expelled Tito from the Russian family, Polish Communist leaders concurred in denouncing Tito, all except Gomulka, who said: "I don't know who is right or who is wrong, but we must end it all without publicity. We must find a compromise." He refused to attend a Cominform conference in Rumania where...
...Polish "Titoist" Gomulka. One of the reasons for this was that the stubborn Gomulka could not be broken, stubbornly refused to make an abject confession. Fearing that some of his ad-lib remarks in court might involve others in their wartime duplicity, his Politburo comrades found reasons to delay Stalin's orders for a trial. They delayed the arrangements so long that Stalin died before the trial could take place...
Send for Gomulka. With the old Dictator's death came that "wavering" in Soviet power which he had always feared. When destalinization got out of hand, the long-disciplined Polish intellectuals broke loose. The unrest spread to the workers and peasants. All Stalin's successors could think of was to order Jakub Berman and other hated leaders to disappear. Party Secretary Bierut died fortuitously in Moscow, Deputy Premier Mine took ill. In July came the riots at Poznan. Someone in Moscow remembered Gomulka, the one man who, because of his war record, his persecution, but most...