WARSAW, Poland — 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 just ...

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 ...

The pace of dealing with the communist past has been uneven across Central and Eastern Europe. While Poland intensely debated ...

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 ...

Because SS soldiers used the Nożyk Synagogue as a warehouse and horse stable during World War II, it was the only major Jewish synagogue the Nazis did not destroy in Poland's capital city of Warsaw.

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 ...

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 ...

John Paul was shot and seriously wounded on May 13, 1981, in St. Peter's Square by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk. But it has been suggested that larger political motives may have been behind the attack, ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland on Thursday dismantled four communist-era monuments to Red Army soldiers in a renewed drive to remove symbols of Moscow’s post-World War II domination and to stress its ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist leader who imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity movement only to hand over power less than a decade later, died aged 90 ...

WARSAW, PolandWARSAW, Poland — 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 ...