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What appeared as his confrontation with Khrushchev and other top Soviet leaders who descended on Warsaw in October and threatened intervention made Gomułka popular throughout Poland. In reality the Polish leader convinced Khrushchev of his devotion to communism and of the need for a reformist approach to strengthen its doctrine.
The Soviet Union had much influence over both internal and external affairs, and Red Army forces were stationed in Poland (1945: 500,000; until 1955: 120,000 to 150,000; until 1989: 40,000). In 1945, Soviet generals and advisors formed 80% of the officer cadre of the Polish Armed Forces .
Oct 22, 2012 · The Soviet Union literally occupied, packed up, and shipped out of Eastern Germany, out of much of Hungary and indeed much of Poland, which was not well known at the...
- Vladimir Dubinsky
Poland was divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Before the invasion began, Adolf Hitler ’s general staff worried that the assault was premature because the army (Wehrmacht) was not yet at full strength and that victory could not be assured, The invasion was thus a highly calculated risk, one that Hitler was so willing to take ...
- Adrian Gilbert
In Poland, following strikes and riots over declining living standards in 1988, the Communist Party leadership decided against using force once Gorbachev made it clear that the Soviet Union would not intervene. Instead, the regime started negotiations with the trade union Solidarity led by the electrician Lech Walesa.
The Soviet Union sent troops into East Germany in 1953 to put down protests and into Poland in 1956 to end the Poznań Riots. The most notable post-Stalin unrest in the bloc was the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, which resulted in government reform followed by military intervention by the Soviet Union and brutal repression of Hungarian dissidents.
Soviet reaction to the Polish crisis of 1980–1981. The Polish crisis of 1980–1981, associated with the emergence of the Solidarity mass movement in the Polish People's Republic, challenged the rule of the Polish United Workers' Party and Poland's alignment with the Soviet Union.
