Polish Workers' Party

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The Polish Workers' Party (Polish: Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a Marxist-Leninist and Stalinist political party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and forcibly absorbed the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in 1948 to form the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). From the end of World War II the PPR led Poland, with the Soviet Union exercising moderate influence. During the PPR years, the centers of opposition activity were largely diminished, and a socialist system was established in the country. Arriving from the Soviet Union, a group of Polish communists was parachuted into occupied Poland in December 1941. With Joseph Stalin's permission, in January 1942 they established the Polish Workers' Party, a new communist party. The PPR established a partisan military organization Gwardia Ludowa, later renamed Armia Ludowa. In November 1943, Władysław Gomułka became secretary (chief executive) of the Central Committee of...

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