In June 1950 he graduated from Gymnasium and started working for the '' Sztandar Młodych '' ( The Banner of Youth ) , a nationwide newspaper founded in 1950 as the organ of the ZMP . In October 1950 he began his studies at Warsaw University ( Department of Polish Studies ) and in 1951 he moved to the Department of History after he suspended working for '' Sztandar Młodych '' till 1955 . He participated in the Youth Festival in East Berlin staged in August 1951 in East Germany . This was his first foreign trip . From 1952 and till his death Ryszard Kapuściński was married to doctor Alicja Mielczarek ( b. 1933 ) . Their daughter Zofia was born in 1953 . During the period from 1953 to 1981the year of the imposition of the martial law in PolandKapuściński was a member of the Polish United Workers ' Party ( the PZPR ) . His attitude to the PZPR changed early on , " the decisive moment having come in the year 1956 " ( presumably a reference to the events of Poznań June and the process of de-Stalinisation brought about by the Thaw of Gomułka , and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 )
Youth Festival
3rd World Festival of Youth and Students
Ryszard Kapuściński