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1956: Poland
The year 1956 saw many important changes in this largest, although not most typical, of the Soviet satellites. The liberalization of the Communist regime following the de-Stalinization decreed by the Kremlin was pushed farther in Poland than in the other countries of the Soviet bloc, and it assumed...
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