Editing Polish Workers' Party (section)

==Gomułka's leadership, State National Council, Polish Committee of National Liberation==

In November 1943 Finder and Fornalska were arrested by the [[Gestapo]], which also took the PPR's radio equipment. Communication between Warsaw and Moscow was no longer possible. Władysław Gomułka became secretary of the Central Committee of the PPR on 23 November 1943 and Bierut became a member of the Secretariat.<ref name="Brzoza 362–364"/>

The PPR published the "What are we fighting for" (''O co walczymy'') program declaration. Democratic ideas and future elections were proclaimed there, while the government-in-exile and the [[Polish Underground State|Underground State]] were denied the right to represent the Polish nation. Territorial changes after the war were indicated and [[nationalization]] of industry was promised together with [[land reform]].<ref name="Brzoza 362–364"/>

At that time the Central Committee decided to create the [[State National Council]] (''Krajowa Rada Narodowa'', KRN), a quasi-parliament rival to the government-in-exile and the Underground State institutions. The council was established on 1 January 1944 and was chaired by Bierut. Members of splinter socialist and peasant groups were co-opted to participate. The communist partisan military formation was now named [[Armia Ludowa]] (AL); it was placed under command of General [[Michał Rola-Żymierski]].<ref name="Brzoza 362–364"/>

After communications with Moscow were restored, a KRN delegation left for Moscow. Upon arriving there, they were officially greeted by Soviet officials and in June the Union of Polish Patriots had to recognize the KRN as the "true representation of the Polish nation". After the second KRN delegation arrived in Moscow, the Polish communists, in close cooperation with Stalin and other Soviet leaders, began working on a temporary executive government to administer the Polish lands (west of the [[Bug River]]) liberated by the Soviet and Polish communist armies. On 22 July 1944 the new organ, named the [[Polish Committee of National Liberation]] (PKWN), was officially established in the [[Lublin]] province. The [[PKWN Manifesto]] was issued, in which the committee claimed its authority in liberated Poland and announced fundamental and wide-ranging reconstruction and systemic changes, most prominently a land reform, to be implemented in the country. The socialist [[Edward Osóbka-Morawski]] was the PKWN's head and General Żymierski led the defense department, which diminished the role of General Berling. Most of the remaining PPR and KRN leaders left Warsaw and entered the Soviet-controlled territory. [[Zenon Kliszko]] and few others stayed in the capital to coordinate communist activities in the still occupied part of Poland.<ref name="Brzoza 362–364"/><ref name="Brzoza Sowa 543–545"/>