Bolesław Bierut was a Polish-born Communist leader, a Stalinist who became President of Poland after the Soviet occupation of the country in the aftermath of World War II. Bierut was born near Lublin, the son of a village teacher and his wife (nee Rutkowska — hence his later adopted name "Bie(r)-rut"). In 1925 he went to Moscow to be trained at the school of the Communist International. When the Communist Party of Poland was dissolved by Joseph Stalin in 1938, … Wikipedia
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