Włodzimierz Sokorski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Włodzimierz Sokorski

Polish politician

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1908

Place of Birth: Oleksandrivsk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 02-May-1999

Profession: writer, trade unionist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Wlodzimierz 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 Lagów 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 Miesiecznik Literacki ideological monthly magazine (dismantled in 1990).
He wrote fake memoirs, novels with strong sexual undertones, and was showered with state medals and awards.