Word: mikolajczyk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Deputy Premier: Gomulka) should include the Polish Peasant Party and the Social Democrats as well as the Communists, but he had his men ceaselessly working to surround, isolate, blackmail, and even to murder, the democratic politicians. "Poland's secret government,'' wrote Polish Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, "is headed by a man few Poles have ever seen-the Russian general Malinov. His name has never appeared in a Polish newspaper. He has never made a public appearance in Poland. He towers above all other officials-public or secret." Malinov's real name: Ivan Serov, Stalin...
...lower level, Deputy Premier Gomulka was working as hard as any other Communist to undermine democracy. "You can't kill all of us, Gomulka. You can't exterminate a whole people or crush its determination to be independent," Mikolajczyk told him on one occasion. Gomulka leaped from his chair, his hand on the gun he carried in his pocket, but Mikolajczyk calmly asked for a cigarette. Said Gomulka: "We'll get the people. And we'll get you." Two years later, Mikolajczyk was forced to flee into exile, and the only "democrats" left in the Polish...
...line Communists. Round-faced, quick-witted, Berman served on the Moscow end of the Polish Communist apparatus until the end of World War II, when he moved into Warsaw. Multilingual Berman lied smoothly to Western reporters in four languages, while he masterminded the ousting of Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk in 1947 and the later disbanding of some 100,000 Socialists. It was not clear last week how far Berman has been downgraded, but the effect of his official firing is a victory for the younger party members...
Stalin quickly countered: "There are some very good people among the Poles. They are good fighters." He tossed in a consolation bone: to show how fair the Polish elections would be, he would see to it that Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, sturdy Polish Peasant Party leader and chief hope for a free Poland, would be allowed to return to Poland and electioneer...
...Sequel. Not until two years later (January 1947) did the provisional Polish government recognized by the Big Three hold its elections. They were rigged to insure Communist control. Washington and London denounced them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane resigned in protest over them. Mikolajczyk, who was allowed no effective voice in the provisional government or in the elections, was forced to flee abroad for safety...