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 | | By the time the Soviet army had reached the pre-war Polish borders, there were three socialist organisations active in the country. |
 | | Two of them claimed the name PPS (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, Polish Socialist Party): a left-wing fraction, which, after initial hesitation, argued for far-reaching co-operation with the newly established communist party, and the "traditional", much larger PPS (during the war: WRN-PPS, Wolnosc, Równosc, Niepodleglosc, Freedom, Equality, Independence), which supported the London Government-in-Exile. |
 | | The traditional PPS consistently refused to join forces with the communists who were organised as the PPR (Polska Partia Robotnicza, Polish Workers Party) and rejected the obstinate efforts of the communists to forge a united list for the January 1947 elections, despite the fact that it was prevented from participating independently. |
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