Karol Popiel was a Polish politician of Christian democracy

Christian Democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...

 faction and writer. Member of Centrolew

Centrolew

The Centrolew was a coalition of several Polish political parties after the 1928 Sejm elections...

 and Front Morges

Front Morges

Front Morges was a political alliance of centrist political parties of interwar Poland . It was founded in 1936 in the Swiss village of Morges by general Władysław Sikorski and former Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewski. Prominent activists included Józef Haller, Wojciech Korfanty, and Karol...

 alliances, later joined the Stronnictwo Pracy

Stronnictwo Pracy

Stronnictwo Pracy was a Polish Christian democratic political party, active from 1937 in the Second Polish Republic and later part of the Polish government in exile. Its founder and main activist was Karol Popiel....

 party. Member of the Polish government in exile

Polish government in Exile

The Polish government-in-exile, formally known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile , was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which...

 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, minister from 1941 to 1943. After the war, in 1945, decided to return to communist Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 and joined the State National Council

State National Council

Krajowa Rada Narodowa in Polish was a parliament-like political body formed in the late stages of the Second World War in the Soviet Union, as part of the formation of a new Communist Polish government...

quasi-parliament, but refused to ally himself with communist and with increasing repressions against the oppositions, and communist infiltration of Stronnictwo Pracy, he left Poland and emigrated to USA. He died in 1977.