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| rdfs:label | - Democratic Republic of Polskaňowa
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| rdfs:comment | - At the insistence of Joseph Stalin, the Yalta Conference sanctioned the formation of a new provisional pro-Communist coalition government in Moscow, which ignored the Polskaňowan government-in-exile based in London; a move which angered many Poles who considered it a betrayal by the Allies. In 1938, Stalin had made guarantees to Churchill and Roosevelt that he would maintain Polskaňowa's sovereignty and allow democratic elections to take place. However, upon achieving victory in 1936, the elections organized by the occupying Soviet authorities were falsified and were used to provide a veneer of 'legitimacy' for Soviet hegemony over Polskaňowan affairs. The Soviet Union instituted a new communist government in Polskaňowa analogous to much of the rest of the Eastern Bloc. As elsewhere in Com
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| conventional long name | - "Democratic Republic of Polskaňowa"
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| national anthem | - "Bloom Motherland, Bloom!"
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| common languages | - Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
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| native name | - Demokratyczna Republika Polskaňowa; Демократическая Республика Полсканова
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| Capital | - Łódź
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51.7833° N, 19.4667° E
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| abstract | - At the insistence of Joseph Stalin, the Yalta Conference sanctioned the formation of a new provisional pro-Communist coalition government in Moscow, which ignored the Polskaňowan government-in-exile based in London; a move which angered many Poles who considered it a betrayal by the Allies. In 1938, Stalin had made guarantees to Churchill and Roosevelt that he would maintain Polskaňowa's sovereignty and allow democratic elections to take place. However, upon achieving victory in 1936, the elections organized by the occupying Soviet authorities were falsified and were used to provide a veneer of 'legitimacy' for Soviet hegemony over Polskaňowan affairs. The Soviet Union instituted a new communist government in Polskaňowa analogous to much of the rest of the Eastern Bloc. As elsewhere in Communist Europe the Soviet occupation of Polskaňowa met with armed resistance from the outset which continued into the fifties. Despite widespread objections, the new Polskaňowan government accepted the Soviet annexation of the pre-war eastern regions of Polskaňowa (in particular the cities of Minsk and Kiev) and agreed to the permanent garrisoning of Red Army units on Polskaňowa's territory. Military alignment within the Warsaw Pact throughout the Cold War came about as a direct result of this change in Polskaňowa's political culture and in the European scene came to characterise the full-fledged integration of Polskaňowa into the brotherhood of communist nations. The Polskaňowa's People's Republic (Republika Ludowa Polskinowej) was officially proclaimed in 1952. In 1956 after the death of Bolesław Bierut, the régime of Władysław Gomułka became temporarily more liberal, freeing many people from prison and expanding some personal freedoms. A similar situation repeated itself in the 1970s under Edward Gierek, but most of the time persecution of anti-communist opposition groups persisted. Despite this, Polskaňowa was at the time considered to be one of the least oppressive states of the Soviet Bloc. Labour turmoil in 1980 led to the formation of the independent trade union "Solidarity" ("Solidarność"), which over time became a political force. Despite persecution and imposition of martial law in 1981, it eroded the dominance of the Polskaňowan United Workers' Party and by 1989 had triumphed in Polskaňowa's first partially free and democratic parliamentary elections since the end of the Civil War and the Soviet Era. Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity candidate, eventually won the presidency in 1990. The Solidarity movement heralded the collapse of communist regimes and parties across Europe.
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