Editing Polish United Workers' Party (section)

=== Dissolution of the PZPR ===
[[File:Warszawa dawny Dom Partii.jpg|thumb|left|300px|''Dom Partii'' building in Warsaw, former headquarters of PZPR]]

Starting in January 1990, the collapse of the PZPR became inevitable. All over the country, public occupations of the party buildings started in order to prevent stealing the party's possessions and destroying or taking the archives. On 29 January 1990, the XI Congress was held, which was supposed to recreate the party. Finally, the PZPR dissolved, and some of its members decided to establish two new social-democratic parties. They got over $1 million from the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] known as the Moscow loan. Of this, $300,000 was spent to set up ''[[Trybuna]]'', a left-wing newspaper, $200,000 on severance pay for employees of PUWP, $500,000 given back to the Russians, and $200,000 circulated to pay off the loan in installments.<ref>http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/7/3358/m3358617.pdf , pol.</ref>

The former activists of the PZPR established the [[Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland]] (in Polish: Socjaldemokracja Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, SdRP), of which the main organizers were [[Leszek Miller]] and [[Mieczysław Rakowski]]. The SdRP was supposed (among other things) to take over all rights and duties of the PZPR, and help to divide out the property. Up to the end of the 1980s, it had considerable incomes mainly from managed properties and from the RSW company ‘Press- Book-Traffic’, which in turn had special tax concessions. During this period, the income from membership fees constituted only 30% of the PZPR's revenues. After the dissolution of the Polish United Workers' Party and the establishment of the SdRP, the rest of the activists formed the Social Democratic Union of the Republic of Poland (USdRP), which changed its name to the [[Polish Social Democratic Union]], and [[The 8th July Movement]].  The Moscow loan caused controversy in [[politics of Poland|Polish politics]] and occasioned a year-long prosecution effort. In the end nobody was sentenced. 

At the end of 1990, there was an intense debate in the Sejm on the takeover of the wealth that belonged to the former PZPR. Over 3000 buildings and premises were included in the wealth and almost half of it was used without legal basis. Supporters of the acquisition argued that the wealth was built on the basis of plunder and the Treasury grant collected by the whole society. Opponents of SdRP claimed that the wealth was created from membership fees; therefore, they demanded wealth inheritance for SdPR which at that time administered the wealth. Personal property and the accounts of the former PZPR were not subject to control of a parliamentary committee.

On 9 November 1990, the Sejm passed "The resolution about the acquisition of the wealth that belonged to the former PZPR". This resolution was supposed to result in a final takeover of the PZPR real estate by the Treasury. As a result, only a part of the real estate was taken over mainly for a local government by 1992, whereas a legal dispute over the other party carried on till 2000. Personal property and finances of the former PZPR practically disappeared. According to the declaration of SdRP Members of Parliament, 90–95% of the party's wealth was allocated for gratuity or was donated for social assistance.