Mieczysław Moczar

Mieczysław Moczar (actually Mykola Demko, pseudonym Mietek, born December 25, 1913 in Łódź, † November 1, 1986 in Warsaw) was a Polish communist politician.

In 1937 he became a member two years later resolved by decision of the Communist International Communist Party of Poland. From 1938 to 1939 he was in prison. After the beginning of World War II, Moczar went into Soviet-occupied Białystok and began working for the secret service. After the war, he coordinated the fight against the anti- communist opposition in Łódź, where he stood out by special cruelty. In 1956 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, 1964, he was Minister of the Interior ( to 1968 ). From 1971 to 1983 he was chairman of the NIK. In addition, he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party ( PZPR ) from 1965 to 1981, as Secretary from 1968 to 1971, and was a member of the Politburo from 1970 to 1971 and again from 1980 until 1981. He was also a General of the Polish People's Army.

In the 1960s, was Moczar leading representative of the group of so-called "partisans", the national and communist beliefs joined together. He was known as a staunch opponent of political reformers and after 1965 was increasingly becoming a party rival of the party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, whose fall he aspired. Particularly well known Moczar was for his leading role in the anti-Semitic campaign in Poland in the wake of the March riots in 1968. According Gomulka's fall rejected the Moscow leadership Moczar as successors from and preferred the Katowice Party Secretary Edward Gierek.