Item COLD WAR 22/2 - Transcript of interview with Politburo member Jerzy Morawski, 1996

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COLD WAR 22/2

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Transcript of interview with Politburo member Jerzy Morawski, 1996

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  • 1996 Jun 2 (Creation)

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34pp

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Typescript transcript of interview with Jerzy Morawski, member of the Polish United Workers Party, 1954-1964, and member of the Polish Politburo, 1956-1959, relating to Polish aspirations for the creation of an independent Poland, 1945; the Second Warsaw Rising, Poland, Aug 1944; the influence of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin on Poland, 1945-1953; the character and leadership of Wladyslaw Gomulka, Party Secretary, Polish Communist Party, Oct 1956-1970; the deterioration in the relationship between Stalin and Josip 'Broz' Tito, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, 1948; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; anti-Semitism in Poland, [1950]-1956; the impact of the death of Stalin, Mar 1953. 34pp

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