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played an important role in the

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, one of the largest and most important

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s of the

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following

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. Together with the use of force and terror it was instrumental in keeping the country's

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in power and was designed to shape

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into a communist one.Wojciech Roszkowski, ''Najnowsza historia Polski 1914-1945''. Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2003, p. 236-240, 678-680, 700-701. . The language of Poland's communist propaganda was extremely violent, as with many others like in communist nations. All those who disagreed with the voice 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 ...

were dubbed as " fascists" and " reactionary thugs". For example, already towards the end of World War II, political officers (similar to Soviet political commissars in the Soviet Red Army) in the Soviet-backed Polish Army received specific guidelines for the training of their soldiers, ordering them to refer to all resistance on Polish lands – other than those they allied with or similarly communist – as the "bastards of the NSZ and AK," and "Hitler’s emulators".

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born July 15, 1962) is a Polish-American historian specializing in Central European history of the 19th and 20th centuries."The Legal Basis of Torture and the Communist Propaganda"
in ''The Dialectics of Pain: The Interrogation Methods of the Communist Secret Police in Poland, 1944-1955''. The insurgents of anti-German uprisings (such as at Warsaw and in the city's Jewish ghetto) became synonymous with "bandits", "traitors", "anti-Semites" and "Jew-killers." Since 1944, the Polish communist propaganda campaigns were usually followed by jarring abuses of human rights and the application of physical, mental and psychological torture in the communist legal system. Starting from the 1970s, Polish propaganda was significantly altered and then dominated by the form known as "

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