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    The 1956 Poznań protests, also known as Poznań June (Polish: Poznański Czerwiec), were the first of several massive protests against the communist government...
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    Hungarian Revolution of 1956 began on 23 October as a peaceful demonstration of students in Budapest. The students protested for the implementation of...
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  • Romek Strzałkowski (category 1956 deaths)
    Strzałkowski (March 20, 1943 – June 28, 1956) was a 13-year-old pupil killed during anti-communist protests in Poznań in 1956. He has become one of the best-known...
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  • Ternopol', Kovel', Poznan and Breslau, 1944–1945. Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 978-1526783950. Szumowski, Zbigniew. Boje o Poznań 1945, Poznań: Wydawnictwo...
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    June, workers in the industrial city of Poznań went on strike, in what became known as 1956 Poznań protests. Voices began to be raised in the Party and...
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    Republic. That the workers' protests at Poznań (June 1956) – the repression of which killed 57–78 anti-communist protestors – created the Polish October...
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    Bishops of Poznań Royal coronations in Poland Sword of Saint Peter Poznań Nightingales "The Cathedral | Poznan tourism | Poznan.pl". www.poznan.pl. Retrieved...
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  • army. These protests are seen as an early expression of resistance to communist rule in Poland. For more details, see Poznań 1956 protests. From the 1960s...
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    The March 1956 demonstrations (also known as the 1956 Tbilisi riots or 9 March massacre) in the Georgian SSR were a series of protests against Nikita Khrushchev's...
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    and executive branches of government. In November 1989, following mass protests in East Germany and the relaxing of border restrictions in Czechoslovakia...
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  • "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" 1956 Poznań protests Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Polish October Suez Crisis "We will bury you" Operation...
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  • Poznań uprising can refer to: Greater Poland Uprising (1846) Greater Poland Uprising (1848) Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) Poznań 1956 protests This...
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    endeavours. Local elections in 1946 resulted in a massive anti-communist protest vote, especially in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Berlin's citizens overwhelmingly...
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    German uprising 1956 Poznań protests 1956 Hungarian Revolution Prague Spring / Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia 1970 Polish protests Croatian Spring...
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    size of Poznań Voivodeship. The Poznań 1956 protests are seen as an early instance of discontent with communist rule. In June 1956, a protest by workers...
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    continuing large Soviet military presence in the GDR, which was used to repress protests in East Germany bloodily in June 1953. East Germany differed from West...
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    violently suppress opposition several times, during the 1956 Poznań protests, the 1970 Polish protests, and during martial law in Poland in 1981–1983. The...
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  • based in Katowice Land of Radom, based in Radom Greater Poland, based in Poznań Gorzów, based in Gorzów Wielkopolski Holy Cross, based in Kielce Middle-East...
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    factories in Poznań led to the first of massive protests against the communist government, known as the Poznań 1956 protests. After the protests and the resulting...
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    Karelo-Finnish SSR was transferred back to the RSFSR as the Karelian ASSR in 1956. On 9 January 1957, Karachay Autonomous Oblast and Chechen-Ingush Autonomous...
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    the United States to western Europe under the Marshall Plan." In November 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary, a Warsaw Pact member state, and violently...
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    East German public to be following his predecessor's policies, and public protests demanding his resignation continued.: 347  Despite promises of reform,...
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    The Stadion Poznań (English: Poznań Stadium), also called the Municipal Stadium in Poznań (Polish: Stadion Miejski w Poznaniu, pronounced [ˈstadjɔn ˈmjɛjskʲi])...
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    marched in Kyiv to protest against the new union treaty proposed by Gorbachev. On 1 October 1990, parliament reconvened amid mass protests calling for the...
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    They were reluctant to intervene in Poland, recalling the 1970 Polish protests, and dealing already with problems in the ongoing Soviet–Afghan War. The...
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    Poznań Town Hall (Polish: ratusz w Poznaniu) is a historic city hall in the city of Poznań, Poland, located at the Poznań Old Town in the centre of the...
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    1940 and then incorporated into Russia as the Karelian ASSR in 1956. Between July 1956 and September 1991, there were 15 union republics (see map below)...
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    large-scale and often violent demonstrations broke out throughout the country protesting what the opposition called a rigged parliamentary election. In contrast...
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