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iJuring th» Polieh-Soriet far of 1918-1920, tha Polish Coaminiot Party triod, in 1920, to introduc© irrto Sarsaar ito owa gorarnaaent, t&ioh followed in>* nediatoly bohind tho armios of Tuhaorovwkl. Th# battla outr,Ido /arsar and tha Riga Peaoe TTeaty put an and to tho bo poaaibilltiea aw3 tho lollsh Cosmmiat iarty vroa obltgodjon Polioh territory, to desosnd to tha rola of a political grenę

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Tha inCluanoo of tha Conamlat iarty In tha Sejm elaoted in 1922 on the of tho 1921 Conatitution /to nhich tha Committco of National Li aration today sp~ paalą/ wbm not larga, tho Party sonding two daputiaa out of a total of UUk* Aa tha "Stalin" form of Coummimn took chape in Husaia, thora ware lnoreaalngly iięcrtant diffarenoaa betm.en tho Comrawiat party of Polani and tho haad offioaa in hoaocnr, wfaich lad to oarioua eplita* In 1926, tha Pollah Coraaurdot Party, togotber with othor loft-wlng groups, eupportad tha coup d*dtat by < ilandaki,

The Polioh Ca namiot Party was affactad by tha Stalin purgaa, tha majorlty f its laoderc in Ruaaia being liąuidated. Finał ly, in 1937, tho Condntem dio-solycd tho Polioh Conomiat Party fot TrotakyiaaT, maintaining only a fory waak Polioh aootion in tha Coointem itaelf.

2, Purina tha Present War, aftar tha oooupation of K aa tern Polani by tho Aad Arny, thoro was bo;jo offort, at firat rory slight, to reoonatruct tho Polioh Co»-nuniat Party, beginning with tho "Union of Polioh Co. ■omiotą" in Iodw and tho *Ao-aooiation of former Politioal priaoners", Tho oomcunizii^ grotę of Polioh intel-ligentsia was not, hoaorar, conaidered by Ifioaocnr suffioiontly ort bo do x, and many of its raaaibers e.g., Broniewski, Csuchnowaki, nora lnprlsoaad by tha Sowiet

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