WARSAW, Poland — It began in Poland at the ballot box: A season of revolutions that toppled communist regimes from Berlin to Bucharest was set in motion 20 years ago this week by the first semi-free ...
The end of the story was gruesome–a spray of bullets and a splattering of blood on a wall in central Romania. On Christmas Day 1989, after a hastily arranged trial before a kangaroo court, the deposed ...
The defenders of the course taken in 1989, who include former President Lech Walesa and current Prime Minister Donald Tusk, maintain that the 1989 deal with the communists, which effectively precluded ...
Alan Maass continues the SocialistWorker.org series on the fall of the Berlin Wall by recounting the tide of revolt that swept across Eastern Europe in 1989. THE FALL of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago ...
WARSAW, Poland – When communist Poland held its first partly free elections a quarter century ago, Cezary and Alicja Wasowski — expecting their second son — held hopes for modest improvements in their ...
Poland is to use lessons learned from its 1989 revolution against Communism to help spread democracy in the Arab world during its upcoming EU presidency. Warsaw had originally aimed to concentrate on ...
Everything comes around again, in the end; every debate needs to be held twice. For the past few years, the Russians have been conducting an extraordinary national argument about whether Stalin was ...
Gdansk, Poland — EXACTLY A quarter of a century ago, here in Gdansk, the first velvet revolution began. When, on a boiling summer’s day in August 1980, I arrived at the blue-gray gate of the Lenin ...
On Thursday, Poles celebrate the anniversary of the ballot, which delivered a sweeping victory to Lech Walesa's pro-democracy Solidarity movement, kicking off a stream of events that will culminate ...
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