• Communism in Poland can trace its origins to the late 19th century: the Marxist First Proletariat party was founded in 1882. Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)...
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    alone. On 21 October in Warsaw Gomułka's return to power was accomplished, giving rise to the era of national communism in Poland. Gomułka pledged to dismantle...
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    Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917...
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    Poland's Solidarity trade union won an overwhelming victory in partially free elections, leading to the peaceful fall of communism in Poland. Also in...
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    occupation of Poland between 1939 and 1945, called the Holocaust. Since the fall of communism in Poland, there has been a renewed interest in Jewish culture...
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    fast-eroding support of communism in Poland. Labour turmoil led to the formation of the independent trade union Solidarity (Solidarność) in September 1980, originally...
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    After the fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, members of a parliamentary commission determined that martial law had been imposed in clear violation of...
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  • that most Jews collaborated with the Soviet Union in importing communism into Poland, or that there was an exclusively Jewish conspiracy to do so. A...
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    which was to take place in Poland thanks to EU funds, is treated as a partial compensation for the losses that Poland suffered in connection with the unilateral...
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  • of Communism is a David Naglieri documentary about the role Pope John Paul II played in the demise of the U.S.S.R., the end of Communism in Poland, and...
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    became a major problem after the Revolutions of 1989, which collapsed communism in Poland, although the economy previously had high levels of hidden unemployment[citation...
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    after the fall of communism in Poland facilitated research into his life by Polish historians. Witold Pilecki was born on 13 May 1901 in the town of Olonets...
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    The anti-communist resistance in Poland, also referred to as the Polish anti-communist insurrection fought between 1944 and 1953, was an anti communist...
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    Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains) in the south. Since the fall of communism many major companies have been established in Poland. The following list includes...
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  • of communism in Poland. 9 May - National Victory and Freedom Day (Narodowe Święto Zwycięstwa i Wolności), established in 1945, disestablished in 2015...
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    of Communism in Poland in 1989. In Brazil, the majority of Polish immigrants settled in Paraná State. Smaller, but significant numbers settled in the...
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    Milicja Obywatelska (category Communism in Poland)
    elite ZOMO squads. The MO continued to exist after the fall of communism in Poland in 1989 until it was transformed back into Policja on 10 May 1990....
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  • Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist...
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  • Anarchist communism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism. It calls for the abolition of private property...
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    used by the Soviet Union during the same period. After the fall of communism in Poland, changing political priorities led to the reduction of OTK forces...
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    1956 Poznań protests (category Anti-communism in Poland)
    be an important milestone in modern history of Poland, and one of the events that precipitated the fall of communism in Poland. Nonetheless, the protests...
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    its size and actions being exaggerated in propaganda in communist Poland. Since the fall of communism in Poland, the Armia Ludowa has been classified as...
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    Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous...
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    fall of communism in Poland, in April 1990. Library collections were systematically cleansed, the majority of the books destroyed, some isolated in Party...
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    Ekstraliga (speedway) (category Professional sports leagues in Poland)
    attendances for any sport in Poland. With the fall of communism in Poland in the 1990s and the resultant sharp increase in the value of the Złoty, the...
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    Piłsudski Square (category Squares in Warsaw)
    (Polish: plac Zwycięstwa) in honour of Poland's and her allies' victory in World War II. Since the fall of communism in Poland, it is again called Piłsudski...
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  • Pod prąd (category Communism in Poland)
    Communist Party of Poland that turned against the Soviet Union. The newspaper was founded by Andrzej Stawar. The other main figure in the Pod prąd venture...
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    Museum of Communism was a planned museum focusing on the communist period of Polish history, located in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The...
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    territories of Poland by the Soviets to the Recovered Territories (Former eastern territories of Germany). Since the fall of communism in Poland, several socio-cultural...
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    every Polish citizen had to be in possession of. After the fall of communism in Poland, internal passport booklets continued to be issued until 2001, when...
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