60 Years Ago; Uprising in Poznan, Poland

Sixty Years Ago–Poznaǹ June 1956 and its Significance in Polish and World History excerpted from a longer study by David Gwidon Chełmiǹski, Ph. D. Not even a year after the formation of the “Warsaw Pact” mutual defense alliance in 1955, Poland suddenly made it into the world news headlines with the first significant uprising of the workers voicing dissatisfaction with the centrally-controlled Marxist economic system which had been imposed upon them in the decade since the Second World War, and remarkably, Poznaǹ, was at the center of what was happening. After the Minister of…

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