- Hilary Minc
Hilary Minc (1905 - 1974) was a Polish politician,
Marxist economist, member of theCommunist Party of Poland and the PWP/PUWPPolitburo of the KCPPR between 1944-1956, the third in command inBolesław Bierut 's political apparatus. He served as the Minister of Industry, Minister of Industry and Commerce, and deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs during the reign ofStalinism in thePeople's Republic of Poland followingWorld War II .Minc was also a close associate of
Władysław Gomułka in meetings withJoseph Stalin , who personally assigned Minc first to Industry and then to Transportation ministries of Poland. [Andrzej Werblan, New Evidence on Poland in the Early Cold War, "The Conversation between Władysław Gomułka and Josef Stalin on 14 November 1945" [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ACFC45.pdf] ] His wife,Julia Minc , was the Editor-in-Chief of thePolish Press Agency until 1954, married to a once prominent supervisor.Note
References
* About Hilary Minc at Open Society Archives, Munich, October 15, 1956. [http://www.osa.ceu.hu/files/holdings/300/8/3/text/103-2-71.shtml]
* Andrzej Walicki, Professor of History at theUniversity of Notre Dame , "GENUINE FANATICS", The New York Times, September 30, 2007. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DE133DF934A25756C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3]
*Teresa Torańska , "Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets",HarperCollins Publishers (May 1988), 384 pages, translated by Agnieszka Kolakowska, ISBN 978-0060914936 (paperback, hardcover) [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060914939]
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