Prime minister: Józef Cyrankiewicz First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR): W³adys³aw Gomu³ka In 1956 the XX KPZR Party Reunion took place in which some of the Stalin’s crimes were revealed by Chruszczow. As the result, there were a lot of discussions and media polemics in Poland from March to June. Suggestions of moral justifications and compensation for “Home Army” were made. In June 1956 the worker’s riots broke out in Poznañ. Almost a -100 thousand crowd flooded the streets to protest against too high production norms and rising prices of food. The uprising was violently put to the end, however, it brought about a political division ( October thawing ). Gomulka was chosen as I CC Secretary on the VIII Central Committee Conference. W Gomu³ka introduced a partly modification of political and economy system ( reduction of prosecution and collectivization of agriculture, extending of citizen laws, modernization of county management – establishment of worker committees ) Yet, at the beginning of 1957 the authorities began to disrespect October postulates and returned to former methods of building socialism in strict connection to the USSR.

Polish people could compare the way of the democratic progress Of EEC which showed it was to be a consequent, long- term and reliable consolidation process (the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community -EEC and the European Atomic Energy Community -Euratom were signed by the Six (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands) in Rome as of today they will be referred to as the "Treaties of Rome") with the situation which referred to the Council of Mutual Market Assistance, the Eastern Europe market’s consolidation organization which first of all had political prerogatives and its priority given to satisfy the economic business of USSR. However, officially in Poland EEC was presented as the imperialists’ club, and as a negative fact it was defined the inclusion of the Western Germany into EEC as a kind of confrontation.