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most of the leading members of the Polish
Communist Party in exile, who were arrested and shot. He retracted his testimony during his 20-minute trial, on 28 July 1938, saying that he had never been a member of the POV and confessed only because "he could not endure a long interrogation" – implying that his interrogators had used sleep deprivation to break him – but was sentenced to death and executed at the
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In May 1920, after the Polish army had been forced to retreat, Unszlicht ingratiated Lenin by advising him that if the Red Army invaded Poland, they would be welcomed as liberators by the Polish workers and peasants. During the
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who "fought against the socialist movement in general and especially against Jewish involvement in it." In later years, Julian converted to
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