Communism in Europe

Remembering June 4, 1989: Poland’s Partly-Free Election Led to Peaceful Disintegration of Communism

June 4 marks two 32nd anniversaries: the first one commemorates the defeat of the ruling Polish communist party in the partly-free election, the second one commemorates the bloody crackdown by ...

June 4, 2021BY Ella Kietlinska
Polish City Wants Red Army Monument Removed From Main Square

WARSAW, Poland— City councilors in a northern Polish city have decided to move a giant monument honoring the ...

May 19, 2016BY The Associated Press
Assault of the Family Under Totalitarianism, Then and Now

Nearly a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Europe faces a major new threat from ...

March 10, 2015BY David Kilgour
Laszlo Tokes: The Man Who Started the Romanian Revolution

Dec. 16 marks the 25th anniversary of the Romanian revolution that ended 42 years of communist, and it ...

December 16, 2014BY Lidia Louk