In 1942 , Gomulka participated in the reformation of a Polish communist party ( the KPP was destroyed in Stalin 's purges in the late 1930s ) under the name Polish Workers ' Party ( '' Polska Partia Robotnicza '' , PPR ) . Gomułka became involved in the creation of party structures in the Subcarpathian region and began using his wartime conspiratorial pseudonym " Wiesław " . In July 1942 , Paweł Finder brought Gomułka to occupied Warsaw . In August , the secretary of the PPR 's regional Warsaw Committee was arrested by the Gestapo and " Wiesław " was entrusted with his job . In September Gomułka became a member of the PPR 's Temporary Central Committee
Stalin 's purges
Great Purge
Władysław Gomułka