1968 Polish political crisis
Videos
A series of major student, intellectual and other protests against the ruling Polish United Workers' Party of the Polish People's Republic took place in Poland in March 1968. The crisis led to the sup
Władysław Gomułka with Leonid Brezhnev in Berlin on 17 April 1967
The Dziady theatrical event and its cancellation triggered student protests and violent response by the authorities.
General Mieczysław Moczar initiated and led the widespread antisemitic campaign of 1968.
Part of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the March events at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
Władysław Gomułka
Videos
Władysław Gomułka was a Polish communist politician. He was the de facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948, and again from 1956 to 1970.
1968 Polish political crisis
…antisemitic (branded "anti-Zionist") campaign waged by the minister of internal affairs, General Mieczysław Moczar, with the approval of First Secretary Władysław Gomułka of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). The protests overlapped with the events of the Prague Spring in neighboring Czechoslovakia – raising new…
Gomułka in 1960
Gomułka in recaptured Warsaw, 1945
Gomułka's speech on 24 October 1956 in Warsaw
Gomułka (left) greeted by members of the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation in East Germany.