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Obituary: Edward Gierek
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LONG AFTER his fall from power, Edward Gierek, the Polish
Communist leader of the 1970s, used to boast that while he had been
in charge, no Polish worker was ever shot. That was a rare
distinction in Poland where Communist hegemony was established
through considerable violence - with the help of the Soviet Army and
the secret police - in the wake of the Second World War, and where
one-party rule was punctuated by large-scale workers' protests, only
to be suppressed by the use of force.
Gierek's other boast was to have produced unprecedented prosperity
by introducing Poland to the pleasures ...
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