Karol Nawrocki has faced ridicule after it emerged that several years ago he donned a disguise to promote his own book on TV.

In 1951, the communists ordered all of her books to be removed from public libraries – they didn’t appreciate her portrayal of the world of Polish nobility. The ban on The Leper was lifted in 1972, ...

Polish Communist officialdom, abetted by the state-controlled press, is demanding that Polish Jews condemn “ignominious accusations against the Polish nation” allegedly being made by ...

On top of that, the authorities of the communist regime banned him from creating any other devices. Why would such a fate befall the would-be Polish Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (as he’s dubbed in today’s ...

The uneasy accommodation between Poland’s Communist leaders and the Roman Catholic hierarchy was coming to a close. Four years ago the Primate of the Polish Church, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski ...

The last time the Polish Communist Party held a congress, back in 1954, Wladyslaw Gomulka was in jail—a Communist leader long out of favor with Stalin. But this time, as 3,000 delegates from all ...

Film posters are designed to sell a story in a glance, but for Polish artists under communism, they became a tool for visual defiance. Forced to reinterpret Hollywood classics within a restricted ...

Poland 1947 In 1947, Stalin invited 16 non-communist politicians to Moscow, where they were arrested. With their political opponents removed, the Polish communists won the election. Hungary 1948 ...