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1947 Polish parliamentary election

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and their supporters more or less completely cowed by the secret police, by striking their names from voting lists and by arrest. The Communist-dominated Government ventured to predict an "overwhelming" victory." Historian Piotr Wrobel wrote that this election saw "the highest level of repression and terror" that was ever seen during the four decades of Communist rule in Poland.
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With the support of a majority in its own right and the departure of Mikołajczyk, the Communist-dominated government set about consolidating its now-total control over the country—a process completed in 1948, when the Communists forced what remained of the Polish Socialist Party to merge with them to
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article covering the elections noted in its lead paragraph: "In a spirit of partisan exuberance tempered with terror, Poland approached its first nationwide popular election, ten days hence. By last week most of the combined opposition (Socialist and Polish Peasant Party) candidates had been jailed,
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Opposition candidates and activists were persecuted until election day; only the PPR and its allies were allowed to campaign unhindered. The publicized results were falsified, with the official results known to selected government officials long before the actual elections took place and any votes
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In his post-election report to Stalin, Pałkin estimated that the real results (i.e. votes cast) gave the Democratic Bloc about 50% of the vote. The opposition contended that it had the support of 63 percent of the voting population and would have received about 80% of the votes had the elections
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were simply destroyed without being counted, or exchanged with boxes filled with prepared votes. Where possible, government officials simply filled in the numbers in the relevant documents as per instructions from Soviet and PPR officials without bothering to count the real votes.
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had the election been honest – saw no hope in further struggle and, fearing for their lives, left the country. Western governments issued only token protests, if any, which led many anti-Communist Poles to speak of postwar
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Gomułka wanted to adapt the Soviet blueprint to Polish circumstances, and believed it was possible to be both a Communist and a Polish patriot at the same time. He was also wary of the
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The January 1947 elections held under the supervision of the PPR fell well short of being "free and unfettered." The PPR, under the leadership of general secretary
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By 1946, Poland was mostly under the control of the Soviet Union and its proxies, the PPR. In 1946 the communists already tested their strength by falsifying the
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The PSL lingered on for a year and a half under increasing harassment. In 1949, the rump of the PSL merged with the pro-Communist People's Party to form the
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had been dominated by the Communists – to remove 409,326 people from the electoral rolls, as 'anti-government bandits' (i.e.,
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The electoral fraud was organized and closely monitored by UB specialists, who worked closely with their Soviet counterparts like
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was well aware that if Poland held a free election, it would result in an anti-Soviet government. Conditioned in part by the
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been free and fair. The only official electoral document known to exist showed the PSL taking 54 percent of the vote in
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The real results were not known to anyone. In areas where the government had sufficient control, some of the
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in Poland. However, the Kremlin and the PPR had no intention of permitting an honest election. Soviet leader
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introduced before the elections allowed the government – which since its establishment in 1944 by the
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The Role of the MGB of USSR in the Sovietization of Poland: the Referendum and Sejm Elections in 1946-1947
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Many members of opposition parties, including Mikołajczyk – who would have likely become the
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enough legitimacy to claim that Poland was 'free and democratic', thus allowing Poland to sign the
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stance). By 1947 the only remaining legal opposition was the Polish People's Party (PSL) of
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Pułkownik Pałkin raportuje: Sfałszowanie wyborów w Polsce nie zbulwersowało opinii Zachodu.
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Wybory do Sejmu Ustawodawczego z 19 stycznia 1947 roku w świetle skarg ludności
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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume II, 1795 to the Present
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Kampania wyborcza i wybory do Sejmu Ustawodawczego 19 stycznia 1947
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Sejm Elections in Communist Poland: An Overview and a Reappraisal
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The election gave the Soviets and the communist-dominated Polish
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opposition candidates and activists were persecuted by the
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Do wyborów w 1947 r. PSL wchodzi już mocno osłabione.
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