Word: polityka
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...years were not only Jews, but also anti-communist Poles as well as Ukrainians and Germans expelled after the post-war shifting of borders. "Let?s remind ourselves of what was going on in New Orleans after a few days of a hurricane," historian Marcin Zaremba wrote in the Polityka weekly. "In Poland, the 'hurricane' took place for five years, or even longer...
There have been signs in recent weeks that tolerance for Jaruzelski's peculiar mix of Communism and Polish nationalism may be wearing thin in Moscow. The Soviet weekly New Times, for example, took some uncomradely potshots at Polityka, a moderate Polish weekly that is thought to represent the views of some members of Jaruzelski's inner circle. The Moscow publication bluntly stated that Polityka, and by implication the Jaruzelski regime, had lost its bearings and seemed intent on making Poland "a land of pluralism." That message has not been lost on the hard-liners in Poland...
...Rakowski, the Deputy Premier who has emerged as a trusted associate of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's, is one of the country's ablest and most prominent figures, yet remains one of the most enigmatic. In his 24-year career as editor in chief of the weekly newspaper Polityka, Rakowski, 55, projected the image of that rarest of Communists: a candid advocate of political and economic reform. He was also a link to the West, a charming, multilingual bon vivant who always found time for foreign visitors, especially journalists...
...German troops in 1939, Rakowski emerged from the war a fervent Communist and, for a while, a committed Stalinist. Rakowski's taste for reform developed in 1956, when Wladyslaw Gomulka became head of the Polish Communist Party, promising greater freedom and economic progress. Under Rakowski's editorship, Polityka refused to join a campaign against the Catholic Church in 1966. In 1968 Rakowski, who was by then a deputy member of the Central Committee, not only refused to support an anti-Semitic purge but protected the Jews who worked...
...discussions of topics that had been forbidden in the universities, such as Poland's history between the world wars. New publications bloomed like wild flowers. Edited by Catholic Intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the weekly Solidarnosc quickly reached a nationwide circulation of 500,000, easily outdistancing the once-prestigious party weekly Polityka (circ...