60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising!

Today is the 60th anniversary of peaceful protests against the communist government in the People's Republic that were met with savage government violence killing dozens of people.

Arguably the first major popular revolt against the Soviet installed communist system behind the Iron Curtain it preceded the much more widely known Budapest uprising later that year.

It was the beginning of the end of any kind of legitmacy for the communist government though it took over 30 years before it collapsed under its own inefficency.

The Russified Varsovians dislike the Prussified Poznanians (the dislike is mutual) yet it was Poznan that saw the Wielkopolska uprising after WWI that enlarged the borders of the interwar republic and it was Poznan that first fought back against the communists.

Now of course, Poznan is one of the most prosperous cities in Poland (thanks to better than average local government more often than not) and very westward looking and positive about Europe (not just in the form of subsidies).

Discuss!

(yes I was channeling my innter Polonius with the casual disdain for certain.... elements of the Polish landscape, it's no wonder that brave Poznan is, among the major cities of Poland, still the least enamoured of the current governing party....)

This all took place under Gomułka, correct?

No. He took power short afterward. It is considered one of the elements contributing to the post-Stalinist "thaw" (odwilż) a general (if short) relaxation of some communist policies.

Thanks, Maf. I checked my sources, but didn't find exactly when he took power (again).
:-)

Were the armed forces allowed to take part in the commemorations in the end?

All public ceremonies in Poland must pay homage to the single most important even in Polish history. The Warszawiaki cannot bring themselves to recognize Western Polish history.

Some Poles claim that the ruling party is becoming more and more like a bizarre death cult.

Merged: PO and KODist plants disrupt anniversary of 1956 Poznań Uprising

PO and KOD stooges planted in the audience apparemtly in collusion with the PO-dominated Poznań town hall did everything possible to disrupt the 60th anniversary of the Poznań bread & freedom protests in which the commie regime gunned down dozens of Poznanians.

When President Duda was paying tribute to those who rose up and gave their lives for a better, freer life, the PO and KOD stooges began jeering, booing and whistling. They also flashed identical red cards supplied by the same source, presumably the mayor's office. The mayor himself had a personal hand in sabotaging what should otherwise have been a solemn commemoration. He refused to admit an army band to play the national anthem.Amif the commotion he cynically said he would do so only if the defence minister sent him a personal request to that effect.

The bottom line is that today's anti-government opposition has no class, decency, taste or sense of decorum and will go to all lengths to spew their vile attacks on the people-friendly government. Even if it means desecrating the memory of thsoe who gave their lives that Poland might some day be free- Shame on those cowardly scumbags!

That's a blatant lie!


Are you calling Polish public figures such as the mayor of Poznan "Cowardly scumbags"?

Sadly they were voted out due to low turnout.

All the PO/KOD stooges sent to break up the patriotic commemoration are scumbags.They even had to be called on tone down their commotion during the singing of the Polish national anthem. Seedy Platformerian thuggery!

You, my good man, repeatedly slander Poland's most influential political figure, the wise, prudent and tottaly committed to Poland Jarosław Kaczyński.

JK? So toxic that as party leader he couldn't even put his name on a ballot paper! The same Jk who tried to hijack the 60th anniversary commemorations and make them about the Smolensk accident.

The PO/KOD stooges actually created an international incident, because the army band was to play the anthems of both Poland and Hungary.

There you go again, Po.

At least the Mayor of Poznan didn't let them bang on about Smolensk, as they wanted to.

Toxic to a niche group of expat anarcho-libertines and left-wingers and the post-PRL bandwagon gang whose world of undeserved privilege ended last October. But beloved by the Polish nation, the real salt-of-the-earth, patritotic, Catholic Poles, and they are the ones who count. Anglo-expats who disdain Poles, Poland and all things Polish, ungrateful guests who love to lecture Poles on how they should act, live and run their own home.

You mean so beloved that he cannot stand as PM even though he's the leader of his party in order for his party to win?

Ppl all over Poland were disgusted by the attempt to push Smolensk into the celebrations.

He is one #!%&$X=?%! A civilised host does not prevent an invited guest speaker delivering the speech of his choosing. Such PRL-style censorhip simply shows how the PO regime has always been part and parcel of the post-PRL clique that has ruled under different names for 24 years. The only bright interludes were the 1992 Olszewski cabinet and the 2-year PiS-led governemnt. The rest of the time most everything served the clique and their foreign-interest-group masters. Far too many ordinary Poles had two choices: contractual junk jobs in Poland or washing up in London pubs.


You talked to all of them?

I can ask you the same about the 'beloved' comment. And I didn't say all Poles were disgusted but many were. It wasn't the place for it and the mayor asked for removing that part few times. He was told either Smolensk or no army. Well, he chose no army and I would do the same.

An invited speaker who wouldn't appear unless he could turn it into a Smolensk accident commemoration, an entirely unrelated event.


Cobblers. JK may want to divide the nation, however he was frustrated in his aims last time and will be similarly frustrated this time.


He is the elected Mayor of that city and responsible for the commemorations of the 1956 events. Perhaps you hate democracy? Perhaps you just hate Poland...

He most certainly made the right choice. The fact that the lovers of PIS are now telling blatant lies about him shows that they know the nation thinks he made the right choice. The Smolensk death cult have no place in the commemorations of bravery in Poznan. The deaths in Poznan were the result of Polish bravery, the deaths in the Smolensk plane crash were the result of the idiocy and arrogance of Poland's worst ever President.

And a bigoted party hack, a biased Platformerian doing the bidding of the Schetyna Politburo.

Are you using derogatory language to talk about a Polish public figure in order to provoke a reaction? The mayor of Poznan stood up for the Polish nation against the Smolensk death cult; he did what was right, not just what the Party ordered him to do. The events in Poznan in 1956 were all about doing what was right, not what the Party ordered people to do, so it is fitting that the mayor has acted in the way that he has.

Idiocy and arrogance of Tusk and his paid stooges. Lets' recall how he did everything possible to be in the liemlight and prevent the president from even attending, altough it is heads of state who officiate at such observances. When Tusk found the president was determined to go he did everyhting to minimise, sidetrack and marginalise Kaczyński's presence. PO hacks even involved the Russian embassy which announced that Kaczyżski had not applied for a visa, although heads of state do not stand in visa queues. But the average person does not know that so it enabled the PO propanda section to once again smear Poland's head of state. It was laughable for a PM to elbow his way onto centre stage, since such interaitonal commerations are always presided over by heads of state. It is always PM-PM or President-President, never PM-Preisdent (Tusk-Putin).

Let's see what "clever" repartee you come up with this time to whitewash Tusk, one of the seediest villains of post-communist Poland.


Being a big fan of the PC dictatorship I cna see where you believe censorhsip is "right" when someone voices an opinion you disagree with. You need not provide more evidence of your blinkerdom, bias and bigotry which comes through in nearly every post.


Back on topic please


That is called an ultimatum -- something a decent host never imposes on a guest, unless he's a boor, clod or Platformer party hack.

The Lord Mayor of Poznań can start counting his days, because after the next council election he will land on the dust heap of history. The people of Poznań have seen through the cheap propaganda and trickery of the PO and their paid stooges. PiS are the wave of the future -- a Poland of decency and true patriotism!

Yes and it is one which was imposed on the mayor of Poznan by the Smolensk death cult. Of course, he certainly made the right choice: the event held in Poznan was to commemorate the bravery of Poles, not the arrogance and stupidity of Poland's worst ever president.


Actually his actions made him much more popular in the city. Cities such as Poznan are not where one finds the average PIS voter, so standing up to the 18% regime has done much to increase the mayor's chances of being re-elected at the next election.


Did you miss this instruction?

At least Tusk showed some concern for the president's well-being, unlike a certain twin I could name who has ultimately gained .... quite a lot from his brother's tragic demise. Why if a person didn't know better it would seem that maybe those who say they want to find the guilty party for Smolensk have been looking in the wrong place all along.... hmmm

The obsessive desire to make the true Polish Poznan uprising (something the russified warszawiaki were not up to) all about Smolensk seems maybe like a smokescreen? Or should I say fog screen?

Only in the view of horse-blinkered Anglo-expats and frustared KODites! He is best remembered for his bravery for flying into a war zone to give his moral support to the people of George sufferimg Russian aggression, for his dynamic and transparent city administration, his Warsaw Uprising Museum and protecitng the people of Warsaw from disgusting street spectacles (pervert pride parades).

The Smolensk death cult certainly do have a lot of they want people to be distracted from.


Your homophobic posting really is tiresome.

Your running rough-shod over the pain and suffering of dozens of bereaved families who lost loved ones in that national tragedy once again shows you up as a cold-hearted and mean-sprited soul. Not that this anything new to FP members.

The ones running roughshod over it are the ones who try to use it to usurp solemn memorials about other events like the noble Poznan uprising, the first chip in the wall of the PRL.... oh that's why PiS hates the poznan uprising because it brought down their preferred system of government.

Harry must have infected you with his codswallop. Did you know that Porozumienie Centrum, the precursor of PiS, were the only party wtih no ex-commies in their ranks. Not only SLD but the post-KOR-ite UW and UD and later the PO were riddled with them.

Part of the undemocratic Kaczynski gang, furious that the majority wouldn't allow Poland to become an authoritarian theocracy.

We see this now in the appalling behaviour of Macierewicz etc over the Poznan 1956 commemoration.