Edward Ochab
- Birth Date:
- 16.08.1906
- Death date:
- 01.05.1989
- Burial date:
- 08.05.1989
- Length of life:
- 82
- Days since birth:
- 42990
- Years since birth:
- 117
- Days since death:
- 12781
- Years since death:
- 34
- Extra names:
- Edward Ochab
- Categories:
- Communist Party worker, General, Nominee, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery
Edward Ochab (Polish: [ˈɛdvart ˈɔxap]; 1906–1989) was a Polish Communist politician promoted to the position of the First Secretary of the Communist party in the People's Republic of Poland between 20 March and 21 October 1956, just prior to the Gomułka thaw. A political opportunist with a Stalinist past, Ochab was deputy chairman of the Polish Council of State 1961–1964 and as such one of four acting Chairmen of the Council of State from 7 to 12 August 1964. Ochab served as Chairman of the Council of State (head of state) in the years 1964-1968. He withdrew from politics in 1968 in the aftermath of the anti-Semitic campaign conducted by his own governing Polish United Workers' Party.
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08.03.1968 | Manifestation of students at Warsaw University started the so-called. March events
The Polish 1968 political crisis, also known in Poland as March 1968 or March events (Polish: Marzec 1968; wydarzenia, wypadki marcowe) pertains to the major student and intellectual protest action against the government of the People's Republic of Poland. The crisis resulted in the suppression of student strikes by security forces in all major academic centres across the country and the subsequent repression of the Polish dissident movement. It was also accompanied by a mass emigration following the antisemitic "anti-Zionist" campaign waged by the Minister of Interior, Gen. Mieczysław Moczar, with the approval of the Communist Party General Secretary Władysław Gomułka. The protests coincided with the events of Prague Spring in neighboring Czechoslovakia – raising new hopes of democratic reforms among the intelligentsia – and culminated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on 20 August 1968.