Edward Gierek

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Edward Gierek was a Polish communist politician who led Poland in the 1970s, overseeing a period of initial economic modernization followed by mounting debt and social unrest.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Polish politician
communist politician
human
awardReceived Order of the Banner of Work
Order of the Builders of People's Poland
Order of the Cross of Grunwald
causeOf increase of Poland's foreign debt in the 1970s
later economic crisis and shortages in Poland
temporary rise in living standards in Poland in early 1970s
countryOfCitizenship Poland
dateOfBirth 1913-01-06
dateOfDeath 2001-07-29
employer Polish People’s Republic
surface form: Polish People's Republic government

Polish United Workers' Party
endTime 1980-09-06
ethnicGroup Poles
familyName Edward Gierek self-linksurface differs
surface form: Gierek
givenName Edward
hasOccupation party functionary
politician
headOf Polish United Workers' Party
surface form: Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party
headOfGovernment Polish People’s Republic
surface form: Polish People's Republic
ideology Marxism–Leninism
Polish communism
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned French
German
Polish
memberOf Polish United Workers' Party
Polish United Workers' Party
surface form: Polish Workers' Party
movement communism
state socialism
nativeLanguage Polish
notableWork economic modernization of Poland in the 1970s
foreign credit–financed industrialization program
participantIn 1970 Polish protests
1976 protests in Poland
Polish October 1956
surface form: Polish October political changes

Solidarity movement
surface form: Solidarity movement period

World War II
placeOfBirth Porąbka
Sosnowiec
placeOfDeath Cieszyn
positionHeld First Secretary of the Central Committee
surface form: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party

member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party
member of the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic
religion Roman Catholicism
replaced Władysław Gomułka
replacedBy Stanisław Kania
residence Sosnowiec
Warsaw
sexOrGender male
startTime 1970-12-20
workLocation Katowice
Warsaw

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Edward Gierek familyName Edward Gierek self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Gierek
PZPR notableLeader Edward Gierek
subject surface form: Polish United Workers' Party
Władysław Gomułka replacedBy Edward Gierek