The Polish–Soviet Friendship Society was a Polish

Poland

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 organisation founded in 1944. It was a vehicle for organized propaganda

Propaganda

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, like the celebration of anniversaries of the October Revolution

October Revolution

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, trips to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, exchange programs, promotion of Soviet culture, technology, books or movies as well as festivals of Soviet songs for amateurs.

Józef Wasowski was the first president of the TPPR. Up until the 1980s it counted over 3 million

Million

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 members, mainly through pressuring students and government employees to enlist. In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the organisation was renamed to Stowarzyszenie Polska–Rosja (Polish-Russian Association).

Presidents of the TPPR

• 1944-1945 Józef Wasowski
• 1945-1950 Henryk Świątkowski
• 1950-1952 Edward Ochab
  Edward Ochab
  Edward Ochab was a Polish Communist politician promoted to the position of the First Secretary of the Communist party in the People's Republic of Poland between 20 March and 21 October 1956, just prior to the Gomułka thaw...
  
  
• 1952-1955 Józef Cyrankiewicz
  Józef Cyrankiewicz
  Józef Cyrankiewicz was a Polish Socialist, after 1948 Communist political figure. He served as premier of the People's Republic of Poland between 1947 and 1952, and again between 1954 and 1970...
  
  
• 1955-1957 Stefan Ignar
• 1957-1974 Czesław Wycech
• 1974-1980 Jan Szydlak
• 1980-1987 Stanisław Wroński
• 1987-1991 Henryk Bednarski

In 1983, a committee on the 'brotherhood of arms' between the People's Republic of Poland

People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...

 and the Soviet Union was founded. The first head of this committee was Jan Śliwiński, replaced in 1987 by former NKVD

NKVD

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 agent Jan Raczkowski.

The TPPR issued a magazine called 'Friendship'.