State National Council

Krajowa Rada Narodowa in Polish (translated as State National Council or Homeland National Council, abbreviated to KRN) was a parliament-like political body created during the later period of World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. Its founding was the initial stage in the formation of a communist government of Poland. The existence of the KRN was later accepted by the Soviet Union and the Council became to a large extent subjugated and controlled by the Soviets.

The KRN was established on the night of 31 December 1943 on the initiative of the recreated in 1942 (after the destruction of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) in Joseph Stalin's prewar Great Purge) Polish communist party, the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) led by Władysław Gomułka. It was the implementation of the Party's Central Committee decision of 7 November 1943. The Council was declared to be the "actual political representation of the Polish nation, empowered to act on behalf of the nation and manage its affairs until the time of Poland's liberation from the occupation". From the beginning, the KRN viewed the prewar Sanation regime and the contemporary Polish government in exile as illegitimate, based on the "elitist-totalitarian" April Constitution, "whose legality had never been recognized by the nation", and as representative of narrow reactionary interests. The new government formation would be based on the "worker-peasant alliance" and on the alliance with the Soviet Union. The Armia Ludowa was established as the KRN's armed force. The exile government and the Polish Underground State, especially the Armia Krajowa command, were worried by this development and by the progressing social radicalization in Poland. They accelerated the formation of the already planned Council of National Unity (Rada Jedności Narodowej, RJN), their own parliament, created on 9 January 1944.

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