THE SOVIETIZATION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN POLAND 1944-1950

Abstract

The “Big Three’s” (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) Jalta, Crimea (February, 1945) Agreement, gave away Central and Eastern Europe to Stalin. Stalin promised free elections. For appearances’ sake, the law from 1939 was used. However, new standards form USSR were brought. Communists were supposed to implement them in Poland. Slowly, courts were dependent on the governing communist party. This process can be considered as completed in 1950. It was perpetuated in Constitution of the Polish People’s Republic from 1952. The courts’ main goal was to use repression, not to mete out justice. The Author shows it in the article.