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Historian Dariusz Stola, who worked with the anti-communist underground movement Solidarity in the 1980s, speaks to The Associated Press in his home in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. As a historian and a former dissident, Stola sees parallels between the way the communist authorities and Poland's populist leaders use propaganda and distort the truth for political ends. Concerns about democracy are driving the choice of many Poles as they prepare to vote in a national election Sunday viewed as the most important one since 1989. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Many who struggled against Poland’s communist system feel they are fighting for democracy once again

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Statue of divisive Polish priest removed from Gdansk square

Associated Press

Activists in Poland pull down a statue of a prominent deceased priest, Father Henryk Jankowski, who allegedly abused minors sexually, in Gdansk, Poland, on Thursday Feb. 21, 2019. The activists said it was an act of protest against the Polish Catholic Church for failing in resolving the problem of clergy sex abuse. The protest comes as Pope Francis has gathered church leaders from around the world at the Vatican to grapple with the church's sex abuse crisis. (AP Photo/Bartek Sabela/Gazeta Wyborcza)

Workers restore Polish priest’s statue despite abuse claims

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Activists in Poland pull down a statue of a prominent deceased priest, Father Henryk Jankowski, who allegedly abused minors sexually, in Gdansk, Poland, on Thursday Feb. 21, 2019. The activists said it was an act of protest against the Polish Catholic Church for failing in resolving the problem of clergy sex abuse. The protest comes as Pope Francis has gathered church leaders from around the world at the Vatican to grapple with the church's sex abuse crisis. (AP Photo/Bartek Sabela/Gazeta Wyborcza)

Man charged for toppling statue of Polish priest over abuse

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2005 file photo former President Lech Walesa, left, welcomes father Henryk Jankowski at a party in Walesa's honor in Gdansk, Poland. Allegations against the late Mgr. Jankowski, one of the key figures in the Solidarity 1980 strikes, surfaced this week that he sexually abused minors. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish Church urged to check sex abuse claims against priest

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Hundreds stood outside the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in northern Poland in August 1980 as striking workers held a series of meetings inside. Today the shipyard represents a flourishing industry for Poles. (Associated Press)

Gdansk shipyard, famed Solidarity movement birthplace, celebrates a comeback

By Beata Biel - Special to The Washington Times

This Feb. 6, 2014 photo shows the poster for a new Polish movie about a Cold War spy Ryszard Kuklinski that opens in Poland on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 and later this month in Britain and Ireland, in Warsaw, Poland. The riveting movie “Jack Stong,” named after Kuklinski’s CIA codename, tells how from behind the Iron Curtain, he passed some 35,000 pages of Warsaw Pact secrets to the CIA, including the communist government's plan to impose martial law in 1981 and launch a brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy Solidarity movement. He was spirited out of Poland with his wife and two sons shortly before the Dec. 13, 1981 military crackdown, and the family lived in hiding in the U.S., where both his sons died in accidents. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

New Polish movie casts Cold War spy as hero

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

A Belarusian woman prepares to cast her ballot at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Minsk on Sunday. Belarus held parliamentary elections Sunday without the main opposition parties, which boycotted the vote to protest the detention of political prisoners and opportunities for election fraud. (Associated Press)

Belarus receives help from Poles

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Belsat TV journalist Volha Starastsina is working on a uncensored news program for Belarus at the TV station's studio in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, as the station is focusing on the upcoming parliamentary elections in Belarus, expected to be a rubber stamp procedure. Last month Starastsina had to flush her TV memory card down a police toilet in Vitebsk, Belarus, to get rid of evidence of her work, when police detained her briefly as she was interviewing people in the street about the elections that will be held on Sunday. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poles help Belarus, recalling own repressive past

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

The 42-year marriage of Danuta and Lech Walesa was strained as when his leadership of Poland's Solidarity movement took him away from their family. Mrs. Walesa says in an upcoming autobiography that she paid a huge price for her husband's struggle against communism, talking publicly for the first time about her loneliness and fear for the family's unity as her husband gained worldwide recognition with his political work. (Associated Press)

The price of Solidarity’s glory

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press