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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1956: Purge in Polish Politburo
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International Herald Tribune
10-21-2006
WARSAW: Poland's new leadership purged pro-Russian Defense Minister Konstantin Rokossovsky from the Polish Politburo today [Oct. 21]. A marathon 12-hour session of the Central Committee elected Titoist Wladyslaw Gomulka to the Politburo and confirmed him as First Secretary of the party and dropped Marshal Rokossovsky, commander in chief of Polish forces. A Polish news agency announcement listed Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and outgoing First Secretary ...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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