Władysław Gomułka

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Władysław Gomułka (Polish: [vwaˈdɨswav ɡɔˈmuwka] ; 6 February 1905 – 1 September 1982) was a Polish communist politician. He was the de facto leader of post-war Poland from 1956 to 1970. Gomułka was born in 1905 in Galicia. A plumber from the age of fourteen, he joined the revolutionary movement, made propaganda in the trade unions and suffered the rigours of the Witos government, then of the Pilsudski dictatorship. During the textile strike at Łódź in 1932, he was seriously wounded in the leg by the police, which ultimately left him with permanent walking impairment. Held as a political prisoner for several years, he was released during the invasion of Poland in 1939 and took refuge in Lwów. He was ordered to Warsaw and became one of the most energetic organisers of the resistance against the Nazis. In 1943, he became the leader of the left-wing resistance fighters, the general secretary of the underground Polish Workers' Party (PPR). When Poland was occupied by the Red Army, it collaborated...

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