Poland marks communist blitz
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Events mark 25 years since Poland's communist government tried to crush the Solidarity movement.
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Large crowds have lined Paris streets to witness military columns roll through marking the 60th anniversary of the cityâs liberation from German occupation.
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WARSAW, Poland A museum has opened in Poland to honor the victim of one of the country's most notorious murders.
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The 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist Party is marked by Czechs.
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A local authority has erected road signs in Polish to cater for growing numbers of immigrants from the central European country, but critics have branded the initiative &quot;bonkers.&quot;
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Andrzej Krawczyk was arrested on a Warsaw street in 1982 with a backpack containing 1,000 pro-democracy leaflets protesting against martial law and the communist crackdown on the Solidarity trade union.
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Around 20,000 Poles took part in rival  demonstrations in the capital on Saturday over whether the  ruling conservatives, who are struggling to form a coalition,  should call a snap election.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated out of victory in his country's presidential election.
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Young political activists demonstrated Monday outside the home of Poland's last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversary of his imposing martial law in 1981.
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Poland will always remember Soviet soldiers who liberated Warsaw 60 years ago, Polish Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski told RIA Novosti in an interview on Monday.
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WARSAW -- Jewish community leaders and Warsaw officials lighted the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital yesterday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday in Poland. Israel's chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, chanted Hebrew prayers as he and Warsaw Deputy Mayor Andrzej Urbanski were lifted by an industrial crane to the top of ...
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Thousands of people hold rival demonstrations in Warsaw for and against the Polish government.
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Polish neo-Nazis have raided a camp housing Chechen refugees near Warsaw, the Chechenpress news agency reported Tuesday.
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About 270,000 people on Friday attended a Mass by Pope Benedict XVI in the same Warsaw square where his predecessor had inspired Poland&#039;s Solidarity movement against communist rule a quarter-century before.
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PRAGUE -- Ronald Reagan used it to reach out to the Soviets during the Cold War. Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement, likened it to the sun lighting the earth. Rock band R.E.M. immortalized it in a cynical hit song.
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Waving a Czech flag, a marcher flashes a V-sign in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday during a demonstration commemorating the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.Keys are jingled in Prague during ...
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"And that cannot be underestimated."  WARSAW, Poland ---- They spent their childhoods in the rich, layered Jewish life of prewar Poland, then survived Hitler's mission to wipe out European Jewry in the ghettos and gas chambers of occupied Europe. via North County Times