People Flashcards
Stanislaw Kania
Polish Politician
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Former President of the Republic of Poland
1981-1989
Jerzy Popieluszko
1984 Priest of solidarity movement
Zbigniew Bujak
former Polish activist and anti-Communist dissident.
Lech Wałęsa
Former President of the Republic of Poland
Imre Nagy
Prime Minister of Hungary
reformist government
executed 1958 after show trial
Karol Wojtyla
Polish Pope in 1978
Edward Gierek
Polish Communist politician and de facto leader of Poland between 1970 and 1980; replaced Gomulka
Gomulka
De facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
People’s Party Leader (Poland)
Boleslaw Bierut
Leader of the Polish People’s Republic from 1947 until 1956
Belá Kovács
Minister of Justice of Hungary
Klemet Gottwald
Leader of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929-1953
Jan Masaryk
Son of TGM - acting minister of foreign affairs
Killed by AGB spy
Edvard Beneš
president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938
Vaclav Havel (1936 - 2011)
Playwright
Dissident
Political prisoner
President
Josef Stalin
Soviet Union leader
Died on March 1953
Antonin Zapotocky
Former President of CZ
Antonin Novotny
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of president of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968.
Mátyás Rákosi
Hungarian communist politician
Nikita Khrushchev
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Janos Kadar
replaced Nagy; introduced goulash communism
anti-reformist
Rudolf Stlansky
czech communist politician; executed by government
Alexander Dubček
First secretary of the Presidium of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia - 1968-1969
Gustav Husák
former communist president of Czechoslovakia until 1989
