WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. He was just 19 but already appalled by the way the regime imposed its harsh censorship, not ...
Parliamentary elections in Poland this Sunday could result in an early end to the rule of the country's governing twin brothers who came to power on a campaign to cleanse Poland of its past. Polls ...
Warsaw, Poland, is a living museum of economic systems. It's a city where concrete reliefs of stoic factory workers decorate a building that now houses a Kentucky Fried Chicken, where a Soviet-era ...
A month ago, chuckling gleefully over the U.S. recession, Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev trotted out a timeworn Communist taunt: “Unemployment is the inevitable companion of capitalism.” Last week, in the ...
SOPOT, Poland (Reuters) - When Jacek Krawczyk was growing up in then-communist Poland, the government was happy to train him in karate and acrobatics. He did not imagine that one day he would become a ...
Top officials on Sunday are paying tribute to Polish post-WWII resistance fighters who suffered brutal repression at the hands of the country’s former communist authorities.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A popular Polish board game based on the hardships of communism is now available in international editions. Poland’s National Remembrance Institute released the Polish version of ...
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's first prime minister after the fall of communism, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, died on Monday at the age of 86, Polish media reported. Mazowiecki, who emerged from Poland's ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. He was just 19 but already appalled by the way the regime imposed its harsh censorship, not ...