Ruch was an

anti-communist Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and th ...

organisation operating in Poland between 1965 and 1970. Its stated aim was the replacement of Poland's Marxist-Leninist-governed

one-party state A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of sovereign state in which only one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution. All other parties ...

with a

representative democracy Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy, is a type of democracy where elected people represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of repres ...

. The group planned an arson attack on the Lenin Museum in

Poronin Poronin , is a village in southern Poland situated in Tatra County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999 (it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975-1998). It lies approximately north-east of Zakopane and south of the regional c ...

. Its members were apprehended by the Polish authorities and imprisoned.T. Junes, Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent, Lexington Books, 2015,

Members

* Marian Gołębiewski (soldier) * Andrzej Czuma *Łukasz Czuma * Stefan Niesiołowski *Benedykt Czuma

References

Polish dissident organisations Political history of Poland Polish People's Republic {{Poland-hist-stub