Zenon Kliszko
Zenon Kliszko | |
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| Member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party | |
| In office 1959–1970 | |
| Deputy Marshal of the Sejm | |
| In office 20 February 1957 – 13 February 1971 | |
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| Born | 8 December 1908 Warsaw University |
Zenon Kliszko (Łódź, 8 December 1908 – 4 September 1989, Warsaw), was a politician in the Polish People's Republic, considered the right-hand man of Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) leader Władysław Gomułka.
Biography
Kliszko graduated from
occupation of Poland and escaped capture by swimming across the Vistula river. He met Gomułka in Lublin, befriended him, and became the KC PZPR functionary
after the Soviet takeover in 1945.
On Kliszko´s advice and recommendation, the communist party took down the production of Polish Theatre in Warsaw, leading to the 1968 Polish political crisis and student protests across the country, brutally suppressed by ORMO, as well as the expulsion from Poland of thousands of individuals of Jewish ancestry.[2]
Kliszko was responsible for issuing an order to regular army units under
Polish 1970 protests. The protests would lead to Gomułka's resignation in December 1970; shortly thereafter, Kliszko was fired from his position and removed from the PZPR by Edward Gierek.[2]
References
- ^ "Towarzysz Zenon Kliszko". Polityka.pl. August 28, 1998. Archived from the original on September 23, 2013. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
Text only version.
{{cite web}}: External link in|quote= - ^ a b Adam Leszczyński (17 January 2014). "Towarzysz Zenon, prawa ręka towarzysza Wiesława" [Tovarishch Zenon, the right hand of comrade Wiesław]. Gazeta Wyborcza. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
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