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Polish politician and writer
Kazimierz Żygulski
Sokorski in 1989
Chairman of the Polish Radio and Television
In office
April 1956 – October 1972
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byMaciej Szczepański
Minister of Culture and Art
In office
21 November 1952 – 19 April 1956
Preceded byStefan Dybowski
Succeeded byKarol Kuryluk
Personal details
Born(1908-07-02)July 2, 1908
Oleksandrivsk, Russian Empire
DiedMay 2, 1999(1999-05-02) (aged 90)
Warsaw
Resting placePowązki Military Cemetery
Political partyPZPR
Awards(see below)
Military service
Branch/servicePolish People's Army
Rank Generał brygady (Brigadier general)
Unit1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division
CommandsDeputy commander of political and educational affairs
Battles/warsSecond World War

Włodzimierz Sokorski (2 July 1908, Oleksandrivsk – 2 May 1999, Warsaw) was a Polish communist official, writer, military journalist and a brigadier general in the People's Republic of Poland. He was the Minister of Culture and Art responsible for the implementation of the socialist realist doctrine in Poland. During World War II he escaped to the Soviet Union.

In 1949 at the Congress of Polish Composers in Łagów he banned jazz, after a four-and-a-half-hour diatribe on the "imperialist rot" poisoning people's minds. Following the socialist thaw of the Polish October revolution, Sokorski headed the Polish Radio and Television Committee under the Council of Ministers from 1956 to 1972, and later, the Miesięcznik Literacki ideological monthly magazine (dismantled in 1990). Despite promoting socialist realism and the line of the PZPR, it is emphasized that as the minister of culture and art, he also saved some writers and people of culture from repression.

Generals Sokorski, Wojciech Jaruzelski and Zygmunt Huszcza in Belweder, October 1988

He wrote memoirs, novels with strong sexual undertones, and was showered with state medals and awards.

He is buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.

Awards and decorations

See also

References

  1. Igor Pietraszewski, "O przemianach edukacyjnych w muzyce jazzowej po 89’." Page 169. In Edukacja, wychowanie, poradnictwo w kulturze popularnej by Marta Kondracka and Alina Łysak. Wrocław 2009.
  2. Bylander, Cindy (2015). "Clichés Revisited: Poland's 1949 Łagów Composers' Conference" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  3. Katarzyna Samojluk, Czasopisma kulturalne w zbiorach Dolnośląskiej Biblioteki Publicznej. Dolnośląska Biblioteka Publiczna im. T. Mikulskiego we Wrocławiu. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
  4. Zmarł Włodzimierz Sokorski. Presspublica "Archiwum.rp.pl". Retrieved November 4, 2011.
  5. Stefan Oberleitner (1992). Polish Orders, Decorations and Some Honorable Distinctions 1705–1990: A Vademecum for Collectors. The Polish People's Republic, 1944–1990 (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Kanion. p. 25.
  6. "Presentation of Awards at the Belweder Palace". Nowiny (in Polish). 20 July 1964. p. 2.
  7. M.P. z 1949 r. Nr 62, poz. 832.
  8. M.P. z 1947 r. Nr 27, poz. 194.
  9. "Decorations for Soldiers and Military Personnel". Trybuna Robotnicza (in Polish). 12 October 1988. p. 2.
  10. Życie Partii (in Polish). January 1987. p. 55. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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