Jakub Berman was born on December 26, 1901, in Warsaw, then Russian Empire, into a middle-class Polish Jewish family, and died on April 10, 1984. Berman was a Polish communist politician, and a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politburo where he was in charge of State Security Services (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa), and considered Joseph Stalin's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1953.
He received a Law degree in...
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Jakub Berman was born on December 26, 1901, in Warsaw, then Russian Empire, into a middle-class Polish Jewish family, and died on April 10, 1984. Berman was a Polish communist politician, and a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politburo where he was in charge of State Security Services (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa), and considered Joseph Stalin's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1953.
He received a Law degree in 1925 from the Warsaw University, and was an assistant to Marxist sociologist Prof. Ludwik Krzywicki. He was working on the doctoral thesis but was never to finish it. Member of the Communist Youth Union and from 1928 Communist Party of Poland. After the break out of the Polish-German-Soviet War in September 1939, he fled to the Soviet Union-occupied eastern part of Poland, first to Białystok, and in the spring of 1941 to Minsk. There, worked as an editor at Sztandar Wolności (The Banner of Freedom), the Polish-language organ of the Belarusian...
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