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The Polish Communists during the Second World War. An overview

The Polish Communists during the Second World War. An overview.

Summary/Abstract: Dissolved by a resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Communist International in 1938, carefully supervised by Stalin himself, the Polish Communist Party was re-created in 1941 but this time, the official name of the party – The Polish Workers’Party –, deliberately ignored the „communist“ denomination, in order to underline the alleged Party’s independence. During the Second World War, Moscow was constantly handling the P.W.P. as an instrument good to be used against the Polish liberation movement curdled around the Home Army, and leaded by the Polish government-in-exile.As in the other Eastern European countries, in spite of its obvious weakness and lack of popularity, the P.W.R. came in power at the end of the war. Gomułka’s attempt to accommodate communism to Poland’s specific didn’t meet Stalin’s expectations, so the latter decided that the Soviet Union must be in full control regarding Polish affairs. In August 1948, Bolesław Bierut was brought to power by Moscow, as P.W.P’s General Secretary. The P.W.P. completely absorbed the Socialist party, and the Polish United Workers’ Party (P.U.W.P.) emerged at the end of the process. The P.U.W.P. ruled over Poland until 1989, being credited with the country’s sovietisation.

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