Kazimierz Mijal

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Kazimierz Romuald Mijal (September 15, 1910 – January 28, 2010) was a Polish communist politician and dissident, best known for founding the illegal Communist Party of Poland (Mijal) in opposition to the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in 1965. He was born in Wilków Pierwszy.

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Biography Born in to a poor peasant family, he Graduated from a Tradesmen's Association Commercial School in Warsaw. Prior to WW2, Mijal was a bank clerk and a trade union activist. He was a sympathizer to the communist movement in Poland, yet he was not a member of the Communist Party. After marrying the communist activist and painter Jadwiga Gniewkowska, Mijal became politically active during World War II, joining the clandestine communist organization "Proletariusz", and aided in founding the Polish Workers' Party, collaborating with Paweł Finder, Marceli Nowotko and Bolesław Bierut. Mijal is credited with organizing attacks carried out by the People's Guard, during the Nazi occupation of Poland. After the end of the war and the creation of the Polish People's Republic, Mijal held various positions in the party and the state. He served as Mayor of Łódź, chief of the Presidential Chancellery, chief of the Bureau of the Council of Ministers, Minister of Communal Economy, and director of the Investment Bank. He was a long-time member of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party and then the PZPR. Following Nikita Khrushchev's condemnation of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of…Citește mai mult