ABSTRACT
A Polish-Soviet academic and ideological conference held in Warsaw included a group of Polish graduates of Moscow's Lomonosov University and a delegation from the university, including its deputy rector. According to the Polish ambassador to Moscow, Wlodzimierz Natorf, "direct cooperation of enterprises was inspired and intensively propagated for several years by Comrade Jaruzelski, and it is becoming a visible reality." The effect of all the obviously orchestrated declarations was to emphasize Poland's special relationship with the Soviet Union. The factor in the decision to open a consulate was Moscow's apparent willingness to loosen controls previously imposed on ties between the Warsaw government and the Soviet Union's Polish minority. The official Polish press started publishing interviews with Soviet reformers. Contacts between Polish and Soviet institutions and organizations greatly increased, with the traffic passing increasingly from the USSR to Poland.
