Twenty-two former Polish police officers are acquitted in Dec 1981 killing of nine miners that occured three days after coup toppled government and Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski and other military leaders ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 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 ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland was split on Monday over where to bury General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Communist leader who for years helped the Kremlin suppress dissent behind the Iron Curtain before ...

WARSAW, Poland — The former military leader of Poland, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, has been charged with “communist crimes” for declaring martial law in an attempt to crush the solidarity movement in ...

WARSAW, Poland – Poland's defense minister says the government is taking steps to strip the late communist-era leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski of his top military rank. Antoni Macierewicz spoke ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that overthrew Communist rule in Poland, said on Thursday he will attend a funeral mass for General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the ...

Polish general and former President Wojciech Jaruzelski, who led efforts to crush Solidarity, the pro-democracy labor movement, was despised by many, but Pope John Paul II believed the communist ...

Twenty-seven years ago this month, Poland’s capital was a different place: instead of showcasing new boutiques and McDonald’s, the streets of Warsaw were guarded by tanks and lined with small bonfires ...

LIES and fear can have a strange effect on people. Wojciech Jaruzelski grew up pious and patriotic, in a minor aristocratic family in provincial pre-war Poland. The country had just re-emerged from ...

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