The nationwide student demonstrations five decades ago became a spark for a power struggle within the communist party and triggered a government-orchestrated anti-Semitic campaign that eventually forced up to 20,000 Polish Jews to leave the country. more>>>
Amid diplomatic crisis with Israel over Holocaust law, Warsaw MPs overwhelmingly approved resolution to honor mass anti-communist protests that occurred 50 years ago, and to condemn an anti-Semitic purge that ensued. Both the right-wing ruling party and the opposition backed the resolution on the 1968 events in communist-ruled Poland. more>>>
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