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4 unusual facts about Władysław Gomułka


Adam Ważyk

Ultimately disillusioned with Gomułka and Polish communism, Ważyk (along with many others) left the communist party in 1957.

Polish Penal Code

Works on a new code began only after the communist régime ripened under Władysław Gomułka in the 1960s.

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

One of the lasting effects of Władysław Gomułka's rise to power during the Polish October 1956 was the dissolution of PAX.

Władysław Gomułka

Gomułka was a member of the Communist Party of Poland (Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP) starting in 1926.


Hilary Minc

Minc was a close associate of the Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka in their joint meetings with Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin.

Stanisław Jaros

The delegation consisted of several high-ranking officials, including Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and the First Secretary of the local office of the Polish Communist Party, Edward Gierek (who himself was born in Sosnowiec’s district of Porąbka).

Stanisław Jaros (January 19, 1932 – January 5, 1963) was a Polish electrician who was executed for carrying out two assassination attempts of Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka, and one attempt to kill Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.


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