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The Soviet forces expelled the Germans from Poland.
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Communist Party elect the liberal Wladyslaw Gomulka as replacement First Secretary.
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By the mid-1970s, Poland had entered a seemingly irreversible economic decline, compounded by a crushing burden of external debt
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In late 1981, the tide began to turn against the union movement. The government adopted a harder line and General Wojciech Jaruzelski, commander-in-chief of the Polish armed forces, replaced Stanislaw Kania as party leader.
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By the beginning of 1982 the stunned nation was again under the firm grip of a conventional communist regime.
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The end of the military dictatorship in Poland began in 1985 when Gorbachev assumed leadership of the Soviet Union.
