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Poznan Rising, Poland (1956) - Coggle Diagram
Poznan Rising, Poland (1956)
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Why?
Workers went on strike over wage cuts, increase in taxes & poor working conditions
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What?
Context
1953 East German Uprising, crushed by USSR, shown that dissent would not be tolerated
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Timeline
March 1956: Khrushchev appoints Edward Ochab as the new leader of the Polish communist party and instructs him to implement desalinisation in Poland
28th June 1956: Workers strike and anti-communist riots begin and protesters arm themselves and the secret police offices were attacked
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October 1956: Wladyslaw Gomulka was once again appointed leader of the Polish Communist Party who began negotiating with Khrushchev
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