01.30.2024 - By Zack Twamley
1956 Episode 1.6 examines the tumultuous fallout of Khrushchev’s February speech in the context of Poland.
What was the Polish experience of living in the Soviet orbit? Here we set the scene and trace a bit of the background. It’s a tragic kind of story if you happen to be a Pole, or care about the sovereignty of independent states, but it also makes for fascinating listening. Here we look at a specific example of a revolutionary study, which tore the lid off of Soviet occupied Poland and which exposed its worst excesses to the world. The release of