 Stalin himself in 1944-45 conferred with and was influenced by a leading National Democrat Stanisław Grabski, a coauthor of the planned border and population shifts and an embodiment of the nationalist-communist collusion.Consecutive Communist leaders used nationalist and patriotic rhetoric to shift public attention from the stagnating economy, including Władysław Gomułka with his pursuit of a "Polish way to socialism"; and giving rise to the period known as "Gomułka's thaw", Mieczysław Moczar and others.Their beliefs culminated in the "anti-Zionist" campaign of 1968.