DE-STALINIZATION IN POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000700050026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: May 15, 1956
• Content Type: BRIEF

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NC BRIEFING 16 MAY 1956
DR-STALINIZATIQN IN POLAND
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arge group influential Party members pushing
"evolutionary" movement to bring about "Polish" form of
Coa n ni$m---to possess such "liveral`Ifeatures as freedom of
Expression, "legality" in judicial, police practices.
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I. At 10 May Paris party for Tito, Polish Ambassador (Gajewm ki) told
Amb. Pillion that Poles were going faster and further with Stalin
deflation than anyone else in Last Europe
A. Said important h extensive changes due in Polish regime.
B. Said fact of geography dictated Polish friendship for USSR.
C. In aside on subject Polish fear of Germans, said "Don't
believe for a minute we Poles consider Bast Germany to be
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anything but Germans",
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movement started after Stalin's death: became apparent
in '54-'55 with Polish writers' clamor for has control.
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movement is not revlutionary one, which could
align Poland with cost, but instead a drive for "independent"
Polish development of Communism within Bloc.
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freedom of expression and observance of legality in Judicial and
police pract ices .
A. This aovesent, which started alter stalin?s death,
became apparent during 1954-55 when a +aeber of Polish writer*
began call ing for leers idsologteal control of arts.
B. This is not a revolutionary w v.aent which would draw
Poland into the Western camp, but one which striven for the
"independent" Polish develop nt of Communism within the Soviet
Bloc.
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