Historical calendar: anniversary of the first arrests of Stalinist criminals. They were arrested, among others, by the Menashes Grinszpan and Anatol Fejgin.
Today in our calendar we will look at the circumstances of this event.
The thaw that occurred in the ZSRS after Stalin's death moved to his satellite countries. In Poland this meant a shock in organization management, especially after the celebrated paper Nikita Khrushchev. There was widespread fear of judging erstwhile Stalinist crimes and penalties for the guilty. There has been a divided of the organization into 2 parties: the alleged Puławians and the Natolins. In common language, curious in calling themselves Jews and Chamami.
The Pullings (Jews) attacked the Natolins (Chams) that they, as a lower staff, tortured people in the 1940s. Chamy, on the another hand, attacked the Jews, claiming that they did, but on the basis of their orders, due to the fact that the Jews held the highest positions.
The advantage, mainly thanks to Moscow's support, was obtained by Chama. On the way to full power, they began to proclaim the slogans of the trial with the environments liable for the crimes of the Stalinist period. Thanks to his support from Moscow, I secretary of PZPR became Edward Ochab, who decided to rehabilitate Władysław Gomulka. Soon, “the Wiesław Association” was reinstated with organization legitimacy and invited to the leadership of the PZPR, but refused to join the Central Committee for a position another than the highest one, the First Secretary.
Fractional struggles and weakening of power have unleashed Polish people's hopes of softening panic and free change. As early as March 1956, the communists decided on an amnesty that included about 7,000 political prisoners. It besides began to remove and arrest the most discredited officials of the Ministry of safety and Justice.
On 23 April, Roman Romkowski, Deputy Minister of Public safety (real name: Menase Grinchpan) and manager of the Xth UBP Department, Anatola Fejgin, were arrested. Although they had genuine crimes on their consciences, their detentions were shown. They were expected to be proof that the fresh squad was dealing with criminals.
In practice, the accounts were only superficial. Most judaic (and not only Jewish) criminals did not fall a hair off their heads.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here..
