Hilary Minc
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Hilary Minc (24 August 1905 – 26 November 1974) was a Polish economist and communist politician prominent during Stalinist Poland.
Minc was born into a middle class Jewish family; his parents were Oskar Minc and Stefania née Fajersztajn.[1] In 1921 Minc joined the Communist Party of Poland, which was later eliminated by the Comintern before World War II. He studied law and economics in Poland and France, where he obtained a doctorate before being expelled by the authorities in 1928.
During World War II he was exiled in the Soviet Union, where he participated in the founding and activities of the Union of Polish Patriots. As an officer in the Polish People's Army, he fought on the Eastern Front and received military decorations, including the Virtuti Militari. Between 1944 and 1956, he was a member of the Politburo of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and then the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).
Minc was a top-ranking member of Bolesław Bierut's political apparatus from 1948, together with Jakub Berman. He served as minister of industry and commerce and deputy prime minister for economic affairs during the Stalinist period in the Polish People's Republic (until 1956). Although his main responsibility was economy, he was a willing participant in political repressions of this period. Minc participated in Władysław Gomułka's meetings with Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin. Stalin personally assigned Minc first to the Ministry of Industry and then to the Ministry of Transportation of Poland in 1949.[2] Minc was one of the main architects of Poland's Six-Year Plan, implemented in 1950. His wife, Template:Ill, was editor-in-chief of the Polish Press Agency until 1954.
At a celebration at Wrocław for the so-called Recovered Territories, Minc acclaimed the gaining of the completely equipped previously German land with its residue of German population which and proclaimed his government's right to liquidate the remaining Germans by appropriate methods.[3]
In 1956, during the Polish October, Minc was removed from the Politburo as well as from his position as Deputy Prime Minister. In 1959 he was expelled from PZPR altogether. He died in 1974 and was buried with full military and party honors at Powązki Military Cemetery.
Awards and decorations
- File:POL Order Budowniczych Polski Ludowej BAR.svg Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1954)[4]
- File:POL Order Sztandaru Pracy 1 klasy BAR.svg Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class (1955)
- File:POL Polonia Restituta Komandorski ZG BAR.svg Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (19 July 1946)
- File:POL Order Krzyża Grunwaldu 2 Klasy BAR.svg Cross of Grunwald, 2nd Class (3 January 1945)[5]
- File:POL Virtuti Militari Srebrny BAR.svg Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari
- File:POL Srebrny Medal Zasłużonym na Polu Chwały BAR.svg Silver Medal For Merit on the Field of Glory
- File:POL Za Warszawę 1939-1945 BAR.svg Medal for Warsaw 1939–1945 (17 January 1946)
- File:CZE Rad Bileho Lva 3 tridy BAR.svg Grand Cross of Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia, 1947)[6]
- File:FIN Order of the Lion of Finland 1Class BAR.svg Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland (Finland, 1948)[7]
- File:Order99441Ribbon.jpg Order of 9 September 1944, 1st Class (Bulgaria, 1948)[8]
- File:SU Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class ribbon.svg Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class (USSR)
References
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- ↑ Andrzej Werblan, New Evidence on Poland in the Early Cold War, "Conversation between Władysław Gomułka and Stalin on 14 November 1945".
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- ↑ Template:In lang Aleksander Kochański: Polska 1944–1991. Informator historyczny Struktury i ludzie część 2. Zielona Góra: Drukarnia Wydawnicza im. W.L. Anczyca S.A., 2022, s. 1118-1121.
- ↑ Template:In lang Aleksander Mazur, Order Krzyża Grunwaldu. Monografia historyczna, 2005.
- ↑ Template:In lang Delegacja czechosłowacka wyjechała do Pragi, „Trybuna Robotnicza”, nr 71, 12 marca 1947, s. 1.
- ↑ Template:In lang „Dziennik Zachodni”, nr 119, 9 kwietnia 1948, s. 2.
- ↑ Template:In lang Symbole braterskiej współpracy, „Gazeta Robotnicza”, nr 149, 1 czerwca 1948, s. 2.
External links
- Andrzej Walicki, Genuine fanatics (a review of Teresa Torańska's book "Them": Stalin's Polish Puppets, The New York Times, May 17, 1987).
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