A career soldier, General Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (born 1923) became Poland's head of state in 1981. After reaching a historic compromise with the Solidarity trade unions he took the presidency in ...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Members of a communist-era special forces militia
responsible for gunning down nine protesting miners during Poland's
infamous 1981 martial law crack-down wer...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Poland's Solidarity-era legend Lech Walesa has
offered to mediate a peaceful resolution to the escalating crisis in
Myanmar, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate to...
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Zdzislaw Rurarz, a former Polish ambassador to Japan who humiliated Poland's communist regime by defecting to the U.S. in 1981 to protest its imposition of martial law, has died of cancer, his daug...
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Poland's president on Wednesday led muted ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by communist-era authorities as prosecutors pushed ahead with a case against the ...
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Poland's president on Wednesday led muted ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by communist-era authorities as prosecutors pushed ahead with a case against the ...
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Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski
Communist-era militiamen sentenced for Wujek mine massacre
