HIST 2200Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Brezhnev Doctrine, Securitate, Glasnost
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Gomulka was a member of the communist party of poland, was the leader of the communist party twice. Khrushchev was a politician who led the soviet union during part of the cold. War, he served as first secretary of the communist party of the soviet union from 1953 to 1964, was responsible for the partial de-stalinization of the soviet. Rajk was a hungarian communist, fell victim to rakosi"s show trails. Bierut was a polish communist leader, a hard-line stalinist who became. President of poland after the soviet takeover of the country in the aftermath of. In 1956 ordinary people started demanding better conditions and started striking. Poznan june 1956 there was an international fair, strike happening asking for break and freedom, 57 strikers were killed, caused poland to realize they had to change their ways. Rokossovski was a soviet officer of polish origin who became a marshal of the.