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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...
Follow or Fight. The first revisionists to go were the young newspaper editors who had dared to criticize the Soviet Union. Scolding the editor of Trybuna Ludu, the main party newspaper, for expressing "adventurous private opinions," Gomulka sent him off to a minor party job in the provinces, took the resignations of eight staff members, and appointed as new editor a party hack who had run the newspaper during the years Gomulka was in jail. A magazine was confiscated, and its editor fired, when it reprinted an angry article on Stalinism by French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre...
Like any other Communist-dominated parliament, Warsaw's glass-domed Sejm is a house of political zombis. Last week, meeting for the first time since the general election, the Sejm was still Communist-dominated, but this time it was Wladyslaw Gomulka's Polish Communists, and not Moscow's stooges, who were in command. The difference was startling...
...Poland's confused state, nothing is sure except that the old-style Communism does not work. Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka's economic planners no longer ask "Is it orthodox Marxism?" but "Will it work?" To get the sagging Polish economy working, they are encouraging many forms of small-scale capitalism, decentralizing state-owned industry, and letting independent peasant cooperatives take over the thousands of abandoned collective farms...
Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime blames Polish Stalinists for the migration. Deprived of office, the Stalinists, they say, spread the lie that the "Jewish administration had pauperized Poland" after World War II. When the Russians set up the Polish Communist regime in 1944, they placed Jews in key positions in the bureaucracy. An obvious reason for this was that the Jews were beyond question reliable "anti-Fascists." A more sinister accusation is that in Poland as in Hungary, Stalin deliberately placed Jews in high positions in order to have convenient scapegoats at a later date for the vast depredations...