<Li> Hungary--ÁVH </Li> <Li> Romania--Securitate </Li> <Li> Poland--Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, Służba Bezpieczeństwa and ZOMO </Li> <P> The press in the communist period was an organ of the state, completely reliant on and subservient to the communist party . Before the late 1980s, Eastern Bloc radio and television organizations were state - owned, while print media was usually owned by political organizations, mostly by the local communist party . Youth newspapers and magazines were owned by youth organizations affiliated with communist parties . </P>

Poland differed from the other eastern bloc states in the 1970s and 1980s because