In the seven months of Wladyslaw Gomulka’s leadership, no longer tied to Moscow or supported by police terror, the Polish Communist Party had lost much of its former authority and force.

were seen here in a report prepared for the third congress of the United Workers (Communist) Party of Poland. The report, entitled “The Third Congress and the Jewish Population,” which was ...

Mr Nawrocki, then director of Poland’s Museum of the Second World War, returned the compliment. He confirmed that he had met Mr Batyr to help with his writing. Then, in March 2025, it emerged that ...

Maybe there really is a flying saucer hovering over a lake on the Polish-Soviet border. But from the Communist party’s perspective, the mere sense that there could be is a much bigger problem.