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The Polish Social Democratic Union ( pl, Polska Unia Socjaldemokratyczna, PUS) was a
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in
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
that existed from 1989 to 1992. It was founded in 1989 under the name Social Democratic Union (''Unia Socjaldemokratyczna''), under the leadership of Tadeusz Fiszbach with 25 parliamentary deputies, and changed its name in 1990. Along with the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, it's one of the successor parties of the
Polish United Workers' Party The Polish United Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other lega ...
(PZPR). The party itself was succeeded by the
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