page_title: Włodzimierz Sokorski
hierarchical_section_title: Włodzimierz Sokorski
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zentralbild Krueger 20.1.1953 Minister der Volksrepublik Polen besichtigt die Stalinallee in Berlin Der Minister für Kultur und Kunst der Volksrepublik Polen, Sokorsky, der zu Vereinbarungen über den kulturellen Austausch im Jahre 1953 innerhalb des deutsch-polnischen Kulturabkommens in Berlin weilt, besichtigte am 20.1.1953 die Bauten in der Stalinallee. Prof. Henselmann, dessen Kollektiv für die Gestaltung der Stalinallee mit dem Nationalpreis ausgezeichnet wurde, führte den polnischen Gast durch die erste sozialistische Straße der Hauptstadt Deutschlands. UBz: (von rechts nach links) Minister Sokorski und Prof. [Hermann] Henselmann vor Block C-Süd
context_page_description: Włodzimierz Sokorski was a Polish communist official, writer, military journalist and eventually a Brigadier General in the Soviet-dominated People's Republic of Poland. He was the minister of culture responsible for the implementation of the Stalinist doctrine in Poland during the darkest period of gross human rights violations committed by the state security forces. 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. Following the socialist thaw of the Polish October revolution, Sokorski headed the Polish radio and television committee of the Polish United Workers' Party in the 1960s, and later, the Miesięcznik Literacki ideological monthly magazine. He wrote fake memoirs, novels with strong sexual undertones, and was showered with state medals and awards.
context_section_description: Włodzimierz Sokorski (2 July 1908, Oleksandrivsk – 2 May 1999, Warsaw) was a Polish communist official, writer, military journalist and eventually a Brigadier General in the Soviet-dominated People's Republic of Poland. He was the minister of culture responsible for the implementation of the Stalinist doctrine in Poland during the darkest period of gross human rights violations committed by the state security forces. 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. Following the socialist thaw of the Polish October revolution, Sokorski headed the Polish radio and television committee of the Polish United Workers' Party in the 1960s, and later, the Miesięcznik Literacki ideological monthly magazine (dismantled in 1990). He wrote fake memoirs, novels with strong sexual undertones, and was showered with state medals and awards.
caption: Sokorski on a state visit in Berlin, 20 January 1953
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