Karol Modzelewski
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Karol Cyryl Modzelewski was a Polish historian, writer, politician and academic of Russian origin, one of the leading figures of the democratic opposition in the Polish People's Republic from the 1960
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1968 Polish political crisis
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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
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…some policies of the party. With Jacek Kuroń he co-wrote the Open Letter to the Party, for which he was imprisoned for three years. He took part in the Polish 1968 political crisis, and for his activities he was again imprisoned for three and a half years. During the 1980 strikes he came up with the name of 'Solidarity'. He was…
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