WARSAW, Poland — Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the survivor of a Siberian labor camp, was an unlikely servant to the Soviet Union and its communist ideology. Poland’s last communist leader, the ...

A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland December 1, 2016 A door opens onto Old Town Krakow, Poland, which is full of centuries-old buildings.

Warsaw once had a reputation for being a gloomy communist city. Today the Polish capital is rapidly developing, with skyscrapers, vegan restaurants and a budding video game industry. Poland's ...

WARSAW, Poland — A modern art museum designed by American architect Thomas Phifer opens its doors in the Polish capital Friday — a minimalist, light-filled structure that is meant to be a ...

In Poland, postwar Communist rule has few defenders. But state-subsidized eateries known as milk bars, designed under state socialism to free people from “kitchen slavery,” continue to thrive ...

The communist government forced Jewish citizens to emigrate, said Fikus, who also serves on the board of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. "They were deprived of their citizenship.

Despite persecution and imposition of martial law in 1981, the union eroded the dominance of the Communist Party and by 1989 triumphed in Poland’s first free and democratic parliamentary elections ...

By Anna Wlodarczak and Joanna Plucinska WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland marks 30 years on Tuesday since its first postwar democratic election, an anniversary that has ...

By VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A modern art museum designed by American architect Thomas Phifer opens its doors in the Polish capital Friday — a minimalist, light-filled structur… ...

City and museum officials say the light and open spaces are meant to attract meetings and debate — and become a symbol of the democratic era that Poland embraced when it threw of authoritarian ...

Warsaw opens a new modern art museum as it tries to leave Poland’s communist legacy behind People walks near the around the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday Oct. 24, 2024.