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Poland The Communist Era
For forty-five years following World War II, the Polish
military subordinated its organization and its doctrine to
the
larger geopolitical and military aims of the Soviet Union.
Until
1981, however, Polish society largely retained the
traditional
notion that the first mission of its army was to represent
and
defend the Polish people, regardless of political
conditions. The
final eight years of communist rule marked an unnatural
combination of military and political doctrines,
triggering a
reorganization process that continued into the
noncommunist
1990s.
Data as of October 1992
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