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Polish People's Republic

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Polish People's Republic

country of the Warsaw Pact and Eastern Bloc from 1947 to 1989

urban-type settlement

type of urban populated place

history of Poland (1945–1989)

communist rule in Poland

Polish People's Army

former army of the Polish People's Republic

thumb|300px|Latvian National Theatre decorated with Soviet symbols ([[hammer and sickle, red star, red flags and a double portrait of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin) after the Soviet occupation in 1940. The text on top reads "Long live the USSR!"]] Sovietization ( ) is the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils) or the adoption of a way of life, mentality, and culture modeled after the Soviet Union.

Polish period of liberalisation and destalinisation

Western betrayal

view that Western countries failed to meet their obligations with respect to Czechoslovak and Polish states during the prelude to and aftermath of World War II

Cursed soldiers

term applied to a variety of anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish resistance movements

Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Poland

secret service of Poland from 1956 to 1989

Pewex () (short for Przedsiębiorstwo Eksportu Wewnętrznego – Internal Export Company) was a chain of hard-currency shops founded in 1972, during the Communist era in Poland that accepted payment only in United States dollars and other hard currencies, instead of the country's indigenous currency, the złoty.

Milicja Obywatelska

National police agency of the Polish People's Republic

Ministry of Public Security

secret police agency of Communist Poland

cinema of moral anxiety

trend in Polish cinematography (1976−1981)

Generation of Columbuses

Polish generation born soon after Poland's independence in 1918

Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland

Polish constitution passed by polish communists in Polish People Republic

Provisional Government of National Unity

provisional government of Poland immediately after World War II

Polish board game

Paramilitary-police in communistic Poland

Polish question

historical debate about whether Poland should exist

Order of the Banner of Work

medal of honor at the merit

Order of the Builders of People's Poland

Polish Council of State

organ of supreme executive power in the People's Republic of Poland (1947 - 1989)

State National Council

self-proclaimed communist parliament (Poland; 1943–1947)

Small Constitution of 1947

temporary constitution of Poland

The '''Volunteer Reserve of the Citizens' Militia (ORMO'''; ) was a paramilitary reserve organization of the Citizen's Militia (MO), the police force of the Polish People's Republic.

PAX Association

nostalgia for the Polish People's Republic

a social phenomenon

Union of Polish Youth

Polish communist youth organization

Giedroyc Doctrine

political doctrine

Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej

1979 Warsaw gas explosion

1979 gas explosion in Rotunda building (Warsaw, Poland)

collective president of the Polish Government in Exile

State Agricultural Farm

collective farming in the People's Republic of Poland

Border Protection Forces

border guard service of the People's Republic of Poland

Socialist realism in Poland

Soviet cultural doctrine in Poland

Free Trade Unions of the Coast

Polish labor union

Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN

one of the largest Polish encyclopaedias

Poles in the former Soviet Union

Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army

Polish counter-espionage organization

Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops

1965 pastoral letter

association of lay Catholics in Poland