Historical calendar – the anniversary of the beginning of the last Polish United Workers' organization reunion. It was during which the organization was decided to terminate.
Today in our calendar we will look at the last moments of the powerful Polish-speaking communist party.
The XI PZPR exit ran from 27 to 29 January 1990. The session was opened by the 1st Secretary of the KC PZPR Mieczysław Rakowski, who in his speech summarized the party's activities and tried to bode the future of the left in a changing political situation.
About 80% of the delegates elected in December 1989 were people who previously served in the organization apparatus, and 23% of them were full-time employees of the PZPR. Thus, the group most curious in the further destiny of the organization were primarily those who drew profits from belonging to the communist verch.
During the convention, a large number of delegates were more willing to spend time in the cultural circles than in the centre of the ongoing debate in the plenary room. On the halls of the legislature Hall, the “Press-Book-Move” Publishing Cooperative Workstation was very successful. The most sold product was Nivea cream and German cleaners. The book “The Private Life of Stalin” was led by purely intellectual products.
Before entering the Palace of Culture and discipline there were always mouths of average citizens with militia – the erstwhile were practically incapable to approach the vicinity of the legislature Hall. People were ID'd, pushed to the street, threatened with a decisive reaction to resisting. It was not without burning the red flag or struggles with order forces that were comparatively restrained.
The most aggressive behaviour for prevention forces was manifested by young people from KPN and FMW, as well as anarchists – chanting acquainted slogans like “Get out of the commune”, “Soviet cones”, “Communists drink milk, for your end is not far away”, “We do not, we do not, we do not, we will never surrender—community!”
The main goal of the reunion was to safe organization property to facilitate the transformation of the PZPR into a "democratic" party. In January 1990 Mieczysław Rakowski received $1.23 million and PLN 500 million for this intent from the Communist organization of the russian Union. Even at the turn of 1989 and 1990, Leszek Miller and Mieczysław Wilczek created the economical Agency, which was intended to facilitate the steps related to the “fall” after the group. This made it possible to get properties, respective twelve cars and $5 million.
Subsequently, the resources held helped to receive the “credit” of PLN 9.4 billion – it is the alleged “Moscow loan”.
At the end of January 1990, the then Sejm set up a commission to find the legal position of the assets of political parties and youth organizations and to recover these assets if they were obtained in a manner contrary to the law. To circumvent the rules, the property of the PZPR could be donated to another party, which of course took place during the reunion.
On 28 January the Sociallemocracy of the Republic of Poland was established. The discussion of the party's program and its name continued until late night hours. The president of the General Council was Aleksander Kwasniewski, and Leszek Miller was elected secretary-general of the Central Executive Committee. The programme declaration of post-communists was to mention to the models of the Western European left, with the demands of social justice, civilian society and a controlled free marketplace economy.
After the creation of a fresh organization sign, the gathering was resumed for the 11th gathering to end the activities of the PZPR, which supported 1228 delegates, 32 were opposed and 37 abstained. In his final speech Mieczysław Rakowski stated that the organization “she played a large historical function – whether likes it or not – in the life of the Polish people.” Then the gathered comrades sang the “International” and the historical words about bringing out the banner of the communist organization came out.
The resolution of the PZPR was an inevitable consequence of events at the time erstwhile the Mazowieckie government was established. In retrospect, we know that transforming the communist organization into a social democratic organization was an highly successful undertaking. A fresh generation of erstwhile organization activists, contrary to first concerns, rapidly recovered, and as shortly as 3 years after the liquidation of the party's "deficiency" – due to the inability of solidarity camp politicians – could enjoy winning the parliamentary elections.
One of the fewer disappointed solutions to only the right party, was a fierce chamocomunist – manager Bohdan Poręba.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.
