The PKWN Manifesto, issued on July 22, 1944

The Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polish Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, PKWN) was a provisional Polish communist government that was created by the Soviet Union. It was officially created on July 20, 1944 in Moscow, under the direction of State National Comittee (Krajowa Rada Narodowa, KRN) in opposition to the legitimate Polish government. In fact the descision about creation and perogatives of PKWN have been taken much earlier in Moscow by Josef Stalin. Thus PKWN was a puppet government of the Soviet Union, and had no choice but a close cooperation with the Soviet government. July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A provisional government is an emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a previous administration or regime. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moskau (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... The Government of the Polish Republic in exile maintained a continuous existence in exile from the time of the German occupation of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the Communist rule in Poland in 1990. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moskau (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... Joseph Stalin Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 18791 – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a political leader in the Soviet Union. ... A puppet state is a state whose government, though notionally of the same culture as the governed people - owes its existence (or other major debt) to being installed, supported or controlled by a more powerful entity, typically a foreign power. ...

The following day, its manifesto was published, announcing radical social, political and economical reform, continuation of fight against Germany, nationalisation of industry and a decent border in the West. It also proclaimed the PKWN to be the only legitimate Polish government thus finally breaking with the Polish government in exile. Soon afterwards the Soviet Union started to transfer the power in the Soviet-controlled areas of Lublin, Białystok, Rzeszów and Warsaw Voivodships to the PKWN. However, the factual control over those areas remained in the hands of the NKVD and the Red Army. The Oder-Neisse line (German: Oder-Neiße-Grenze; Polish: Granica na Odrze i Nysie Łużyckiej) is the border between Germany and Poland. ... Lublin voivodship since 1999 Lublin Voivodship (in Polish województwo lubelskie) is an administrative and local government region or voivodship in the eastern part of Poland. ... Warszawa Voivodship (Polish: województwo warszawskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Masovian Voivodship. ... Black Ravens by Boris Vladimirski, a depiction of the cars used by NKVD agents. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ...

Among the members of the PKWN were politicians of various communist and leftist parties accepted by the communist authorities. Its' chairperson was Edward Osóbka-Morawski (Polish Socialist Party, Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS). His deputies were Wanda Wasilewska (Union of Polish Patriots, Związek Patriotów Polskich, ZPP) and Andrzej Witos (People's Political Party, Stronnictwo Ludowe, SL), a younger brother of Wincenty Witos, a notable pre-war politician. Andrzej Witos was later replaced by Stanisław Janusz. Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909-1997) was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Communist Lublin government, and then of Poland, from January 1945 to 1947. ... Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) was one of the most important Polish political parties 1890-1948. ... Wanda Wasilewska (1905– 1964) was a Polish novelist and politician. ... Categories: People stubs | 1874 births | 1945 deaths | Prime Ministers of Poland ...

Other members included those from KRN, ZPP, Worker's Party of Polish Socialists (Robotnicza Partia Polskich Socjalistów, RPPS), SL, Democratic Party (Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, SD), Polish Workers Party (Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) and unaffilated. Most of these organisations and politicians were largely unknown to the Polish society. Stronnictwo Demokratyczne (Democratic Party, SD) is a Polish centrist party established on April 15, 1939. ...

On December 31, 1944, the PKWN was joined by several members of the Polish government in exile, among them Stanisław Mikołajczyk. It was then transformed into Provisional Government of Republic of Poland (Polish: Rząd Tymczasowy Republiki Polskiej, RTRP) that was to govern the areas taken by the Red Army from Nazi Germany until the elections are held. December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Government of the Polish Republic in exile maintained a continuous existence in exile from the time of the German occupation of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the Communist rule in Poland in 1990. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... See Election (movie) for the film directed by Alexander Payne. ...