Word: postcommunist
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...were all intended for internal use, officers would have had no reason to fabricate them. He insists all the documents in his institute are 100% genuine. "They reflect the truth," he says. Niezabitowska's case and others have been seized upon by some opposition parties to assail Poland's postcommunist political élite, both ex-communists and ex-dissidents. The rightist Law and Justice Party is pressing for a "complete lustration" of all state and city officials, professors, company directors and even editors. Many observers, even sympathetic ones, say Niezabitowska's biggest mistake was not bringing this incident up when...
...movement, allowing the U.S. to pressure Moscow to back down. Kuklinski, who defected to the U.S. in 1981, said his espionage was motivated by his disdain for Poland's Soviet overlords. In 1994, Pope John Paul II received him at the Vatican, and four years later a court in postcommunist Poland exonerated him of a previous treason conviction, permitting him to visit the country he risked his life trying to save. -By Richard Hornik...
...rebuilding Iraq, one must recall examples of postcommunist countries like Poland [COVER STORY, April 21]. The allies have to install democratic institutions and above all school the Iraqi people in how to function in a democracy. The allies should send teachers to Iraq to train this new society. The coalition will thereby be perceived not only as occupying troops but also as real liberators. It is important to include Israel among the states giving charitable aid to Iraq. Jews will have a chance to be seen as friends of Arabs and the Islamic world. MAREK WIEROSKI Andrychw, Poland...
...elected six days before Adamec died and many see his victory as a triumph of the robber-baron capitalism that so disgusted Adamec. Zdenka Kmunícková, a psychiatrist who attended the burned Palach, says the self-immolations come at a time when the strain of the postcommunist era is building. Milan Cerny, a psychiatrist who was at the time of Palach's death Kmunícková's boss at the psychiatric research center in Prague, blames the deaths on the Palach mystique. "I think the people are solving their own problems and are only dressing them...
...farfetched to connect the suicides of two young men - one possibly facing jail, the other lovelorn - to the stress of postcommunist life? Jaroslava Moserová doesn't think so. A senator and physician who treated Palach in the days before he died, she thinks she understands the strain these men were under. She compares the 1989 collapse of communism to tearing down a zoo and letting the predators loose. The past 14 years have been a chaotic, confusing time. But this response, she says, "is futile. During Palach's time there was no other way [to protest...