MERGER OF PPS AND PPR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A000700040001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 24, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, The merger of the PPS and PPR,'vras to have been affected in September 1948
It had to be delayed again, apparently because the leaders were not ready to
clean house in the PPS. When the two parties do merge, many groups of
workers will quit the PPS, but the intelligentsia and employees will not
be able to do so as it would lose them their jobs. The plans for merger
foresee this penalty. Those who do not report that they have left 'the PPS
will automatically become members of the new party, Among the PPS it is
being said that about 500 thousand workers will quit and refuse to join th.e.ne'r
organization. Actually, these workers do not rise:. anything by so doing;
their excuse will be that they do not want to pay dues, and do not wish
to partake in politics
2. Mass joining of the PPR has been noticed lately. It now appears also that
many had already joined in secret. The public was astonished to learn that
the well-known journalist of the Kuryer ,.arszawski, Trzebinski, who died not
long ago, was a PPR member from the first day of Soviet occupation of Warsawg,
and that he was 'very active and influential in the party. PPR leaders and
aelegates from other cities attended his funeral.
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