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People Flashcards

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Stanislaw Kania

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Polish Politician

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Wojciech Jaruzelski

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Former President of the Republic of Poland
1981-1989

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Jerzy Popieluszko

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1984 Priest of solidarity movement

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Zbigniew Bujak

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former Polish activist and anti-Communist dissident.

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Lech Wałęsa

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Former President of the Republic of Poland

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Imre Nagy

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Prime Minister of Hungary

reformist government

executed 1958 after show trial

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Karol Wojtyla

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Polish Pope in 1978

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Edward Gierek

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Polish Communist politician and de facto leader of Poland between 1970 and 1980; replaced Gomulka

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Gomulka

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De facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948

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Stanislaw Mikolajczyk

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People’s Party Leader (Poland)

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Boleslaw Bierut

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Leader of the Polish People’s Republic from 1947 until 1956

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Belá Kovács

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Minister of Justice of Hungary

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Klemet Gottwald

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Leader of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929-1953

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Jan Masaryk

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Son of TGM - acting minister of foreign affairs

Killed by AGB spy

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Edvard Beneš

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president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938

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Vaclav Havel (1936 - 2011)

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Playwright
Dissident
Political prisoner
President

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Josef Stalin

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Soviet Union leader
Died on March 1953

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Antonin Zapotocky

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Former President of CZ

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Antonin Novotny

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First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of president of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968.

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Mátyás Rákosi

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Hungarian communist politician

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Nikita Khrushchev

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First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

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Janos Kadar

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replaced Nagy; introduced goulash communism

anti-reformist

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Rudolf Stlansky

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czech communist politician; executed by government

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Alexander Dubček

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First secretary of the Presidium of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia - 1968-1969

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Gustav Husák

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former communist president of Czechoslovakia until 1989

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Central European Studies (3 decks)

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