Włodzimierz Sokorski (2 July 1908 – 2 May 1999) was a Polish communist official, writer, military journalist and a brigadier general in the People's Republic of Poland. He was the Minister of Culture and Art responsible for the implementation of the socialist realist doctrine in Poland. During World War II he escaped to the Soviet Union.
In 1949 at the Congress of Polish Composers in Łagów he banned jazz, after a four-and-a-half-hour diatribe on the "imperialist rot" poisoning people's minds.[1][2] Following the socialist thaw of the Polish October revolution, Sokorski headed the Polish Radio and Television Committee under the Council of Ministers from 1956 to 1972, and later, the Miesięcznik Literacki ideological monthly magazine (dismantled in 1990).[3] Despite promoting socialist realism and the line of the PZPR, it is emphasized that as the minister of culture and art, he also saved some writers and people of culture from repression.
He wrote memoirs, novels with strong sexual undertones, and was showered with state medals and awards.[4]
He is buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
Awards and decorations
Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1979)[5]
Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class
Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1964)[6]
Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1949)[7]
Gold Cross of Virtuti Militari
Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1946)[8]
Lenino Cross (1988)[9]
Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland
Medal of the 40th Anniversary of People's Poland
Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland
Gold Medal of Merit for National Defence
Medal of Ludwik Waryński (1986)[10]
Badge of the 1000th Anniversary of the Polish State (1966)
Order of Lenin (USSR)
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (USSR)
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (USSR)
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (USSR)
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (USSR)
See also
References
- ^ Igor Pietraszewski, "O przemianach edukacyjnych w muzyce jazzowej po 89’." Page 169. In Edukacja, wychowanie, poradnictwo w kulturze popularnej by Marta Kondracka and Alina Łysak. Wrocław 2009.[dead link]
- ^ Bylander, Cindy (2015). "Clichés Revisited: Poland's 1949 Łagów Composers' Conference" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2017.
- ^ Katarzyna Samojluk, Czasopisma kulturalne w zbiorach Dolnośląskiej Biblioteki Publicznej. Dolnośląska Biblioteka Publiczna im. T. Mikulskiego we Wrocławiu. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Zmarł Włodzimierz Sokorski. Presspublica "Archiwum.rp.pl". Retrieved November 4, 2011.
- ^ Stefan Oberleitner (1992). Polish Orders, Decorations and Some Honorable Distinctions 1705–1990: A Vademecum for Collectors. The Polish People's Republic, 1944–1990 (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Kanion. p. 25.
- ^ "Presentation of Awards at the Belweder Palace". Nowiny (in Polish). 20 July 1964. p. 2.
- ^ M.P. z 1949 r. Nr 62, poz. 832.
- ^ M.P. z 1947 r. Nr 27, poz. 194.
- ^ "Decorations for Soldiers and Military Personnel". Trybuna Robotnicza (in Polish). 12 October 1988. p. 2.
- ^ Życie Partii (in Polish). January 1987. p. 55.
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