Watch FilmoFlix. "We don't like the party, the former party anymore; one would like to walk with one's head held high, though" - bade farewell to the Polish United Workers' Party its last head, Mieczyslaw Franciszek Rakowski. In the winter of 1990, the organization's banner was solemnly brought out during a meeting in the Congress Hall. The PZPR was dissolved, and a whole new chapter in the history of postwar Poland began.