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...elections - the first country behind the Iron Curtain to do so. But it was the boldness of the Solidarity movement, and the millions of Poles who risked arrest or worse by voting for it, that paved the way for the Berlin Wall to fall five months later. Anna Spysz, CRACOW, POLAND...
...Nazi occupation and drab, communist-era decay. Though it's 15 years since the Soviet tanks left, the country has yet to shake that reputation. That's a shame: Poland may be the most underappreciated destination in Europe. From the meticulously reconstructed old square in Warsaw to medieval Cracow and the white sand beaches of the Baltic, the country boasts some of Central Europe's most unexpected pleasures. Poland is preparing to join the European Union in May, and Poles hope the higher profile that comes with E.U. membership will help put their country's undeserved reputation for dowdiness behind...
...fact, 600,000 migrants went to Britain in the first two years, more than half of them from Poland, and more than 300,000 East Europeans landed in Ireland. Low-cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside churches across Ireland advertised for laborers with many of the notices written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun adding road signs in Polish because immigrant truck drivers were getting confused...
...each year from the new E.U. countries; in Ireland 10,000 were predicted. In fact, 579,000 came to Britain in the first two years, more than one-half of them from Poland, and over 300,000 from Eastern Europe to Ireland. Low-cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside Catholic churches across Ireland filled up with notices looking for laborers, many of the advertisements written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun erecting Polish road signs because immigrant truck drivers...
...messiness looks likely to continue. Until recently, the Polish Catholic Church had remained immune from scrutiny, but that taboo has crumbled in recent weeks as anticommunist newspapers began printing accusations about Warsaw Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus and, later, a senior Cracow priest, Janusz Bielanski. A new report in a right-wing daily lists the pseudonyms of 12 bishops allegedly recruited by the secret police in the late 1970s...