Document #1196186
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
1) The Europa YearBook 1988 lists
the ZSMP as a youth organization that is affiliated with the
Communist Party (In Poland, the Polish United Workers' Party or
Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza). It had 1.5 million members
in December 1985 and was founded in 1976.
2) For an update of recent political events
in Poland, please see the attached newspaper and periodical
clippings from the IRBDC's Poland files. The Department of External
Affairs reports that the situation with regard to the treatment of
dissidents is evolving so rapidly that precise information is not
available. The department states that there is a definite trend
towards liberalization and every indication that more and more
organizations which had been previously banned are no longer
proscribed.