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Post by Jaga on Jun 22, 2006 15:19:33 GMT -7
I am not sure how many of you know that the Hungarian Revolution was preceded by the Polish revolt that started in Poznan in June 28, 1956.
In Poland Soviets did not intervene,
here is just a couple of words about it:
The Poznañ 1956 protests (Polish: Poznañski Czerwiec — "Poznañ June") were the first protests of the Polish people against their communist government. The protests began June 28, 1956, at Poznañ's Cegielski Factories and met with bloody repression. According to official figures, 74 people were killed (the actual number of dead is thought to have been higher), including a 13-year-old boy, Romek Strza³kowski. Nearly a thousand people were injured.
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Post by sciwriter on Jun 22, 2006 20:36:52 GMT -7
Jaga, I understand that the Poznan revolt failed partly because workers did not unite with university students. Their unity in later years helped Solidarity win. Carl
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Post by Jaga on Jun 23, 2006 7:39:34 GMT -7
Carl,
good point. Yes, the same situation repeated (but in the other direction) in 1968 when students revolts were not supported by workers. Therefore in 70-es after workers protests in Radom and Ursus - the intellectualists arranged the help to help workers to cement intellectuals and workers (Commitee to Help Workers)
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Post by pieter on Jun 24, 2006 3:58:02 GMT -7
Jaga,
I knew that the Hungarian revolt of 1956 started with a solidarity demonstration with the Polish revolt
in 1956. My mother said that Polish-Hungarian relations were always good, maybe it was partly because
of this? Anyway I am interested in the Hungarian Newest History too.
Do you know the Hungrain writer György Konrád?
He was in a Dutch cultural-literary program, and told very interesting
stories and details about the Hungarian history.
His experiance about the start of the Hungarian uprising was as absurd
as his experiances with the second world war, the Russian liberation/
occupation after that. The day the revolt began he walked around with a half shaven beard,
because he was supprised by the suddenly upcomming events.
The Hungarian revolt was a very dirty, bloody affair, because of the brutality
form both sides, but especially the opression by the Sovjets and their Stalinist allies.
My grandparents witnessed the struggles in their neigbourhood in Poznan,
where Polish uprisers trew a molotov cocktail in a tank, destroying it.
Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jun 24, 2006 4:05:14 GMT -7
www.city.poznan.pl/czerwiec56/www.videofact.com/cold_war/poznan/poznan1956e.htmJUNE EVENTS IN POZNAN (1956) After the second world war all public institutions, economy and culture were subordinated to PZPR party. In 1955, after Stalin's death, part of the Ministry of Public Security was deprived of the authority, some of the communist leaders required Wladyslaw Gomulka's return. In the meantime, Boleslaw Bierut died in Moscow. It caused an increase of tension in PZPR. The part of the communists, so-called - "pulawianie", wanted to carry out a program of social reform. They announced liberal slogans, were against excessive press censorship, wanted to introduce transformations in politics, economic and social life. This group realized that terror led to deep division between the authorities and people. "Pulawianie" were supported by youth from ZMP and educated people. Their opponents, who wanted no changes, so-called - "natolinczycy", carried out the commands from Moscow. They wanted to keep contact with USSR and continue their politics, which is more, very often anti-Semitic. Besides they were against the liberalization. Poznan - 1956 The newspapers published at that time were not so severely censored. According to the act of amnesty, prisoners - people, who served Poland, were let out of jails. However the economy crisis was developing. Instead of fear, people had great hopes of improving their conditions of life. The slogans, which referred to the independence of Poland, came back and they were announced at demonstrations. In June 1956 workmen went out into the streets, requiring better payments. However it changed into a large patriotic and anti governmental demonstration. The demonstrators broke into the jail, set the prisoners free, stole the weapons and went straight to the centre of WUBP. There they started to shoot. The government used tanks. On June 18-19th 1956 75 people were killed and 900 people were injured. The demonstration was suppressed. June events caused increase of hatred to the system, which was based on lawlessness. In the factories workmen councils started to function, teachers introduced new scholarly programs. The communist government was in crisis. There was possibility that it would move out into other countries of Central Europe.
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Post by pieter on Jun 24, 2006 4:25:25 GMT -7
I just read on a Dutch site about Polish history that Sovjets were involved next to Polish soldiers. It is strange that it seems that that fact (involvement of the Red Army or KGB forces) is not mentioned anywhere else on English speaking, Dutch speaking and German internet sites. In Polish a link about Romek Strza?kowski; cristeros1.w.interia.pl/crist/anty/romek.htmAnd about june 1956: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czerwiec_1956 |
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Post by pieter on Jun 24, 2006 4:27:13 GMT -7
My granparents said that the destroyed tank was Russian.
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