Partisans (PUWP fraction)

The Partisans were an informal group in the Polish United Workers' Party. It was created in the 1960s, its main creators were Mieczysław Moczar and General Grzegorz Korczyński. The name comes from the Nazi occupation history of Moczar and Korczyński, when they commanded partisan troops and refers to the veteran ethos. The Partisans were the main representatives of Endo-Communism between the 1950s and 1970s, which was a Polish form of national communism that was seen as a mixture of Endecja ideology with Marxism-Leninism. The group was also called "the police faction" given that it controlled the security apparatus of socialist Poland, and turned it into "a well-organized and highly efficient power structure" and "a widespread network of agents and informers".