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Lenin returns to Poland's historic Solidarity shipyard [May 15, 2012] WARSAW (AFP) - After two decades, the name of Vladimir Lenin made a comeback Monday to Poland's Gdansk shipyard, the famed 1980 birthplace of the anti-communist Solidarity trade union. [via YahooNews] More >>

Lenin returns to Poland's historic Solidarity shipyard [May 14, 2012] After two decades, the name of Vladimir Lenin made a comeback Monday to Poland's Gdansk shipyard, the famed 1980 birthplace of the anti-communist Solidarity trade union. [via YahooNews] More >>

Analysis: Polish finding latest rift between Church and state hard to believe [Apr 12, 2012] THERE is muttering of a revolution in Poland. Conservative circles talk of an assault on the Catholic Church which cuts to the very heart of the nation, and fear a fraying of the bonds that for decades, if not centuries, have tied Catholicism and the Polish nation together. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish president announces two days of national morning following rail crash [Mar 05, 2012] WARSAW, Poland : Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski on Sunday evening announced two days of national mourning after the country's deadliest rail accident in more than two decades. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland to mourn 16 killed in head-on train crash [Mar 05, 2012] WARSAW, SZCZEKOCINY, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski announced a two-day national mourning period on Sunday for the 16 people killed in a head-on collision of two trains in the country's worst rail accident in more than two decades. The trains collided at an average speed of 100 km (60 miles) near the town of Szczekociny in southern Poland on Saturday night after one ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland to mourn 16 killed in head-on train crash [Mar 04, 2012] WARSAW, SZCZEKOCINY, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski announced a two-day national mourning period on Sunday for the 16 people killed in a head-on collision of two trains in the country's worst rail accident in more than two decades. The trains collided at an average speed of 100 km (60 miles) near the town of Szczekociny in southern Poland on Saturday night after one ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland Leads Wave of Communist-Era Reckoning in Europe [Feb 21, 2012] After decades of resisting, Poland and many of its European neighbors have decided the time is right to deal with their Communist past. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland Leads Wave of Communist-Era Reckoning in Europe [Feb 21, 2012] After decades of resisting, Poland and many of its European neighbors have decided the time is right to deal with their Communist past. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland Leads Wave of Communist-Era Reckoning in Europe [Feb 21, 2012] After decades of resisting, Poland and many of its European neighbors have decided the time is right to deal with their Communist past. [via YahooNews] More >>

After Kirk stroke, colleagues push on Polish visas [Feb 14, 2012] Weighed down by her husband's ruinous debts, Wanda Borowski left Poland 25 years ago to find work in the U.S., unaware it would mean two decades without seeing the son she left behind. [via YahooNews] More >>

Kirk Colleagues Push on Polish Visas [Feb 14, 2012] Weighed down by her husband's ruinous debts, Wanda Borowski left Poland 25 years ago to find work in the U.S., unaware it would mean two decades without seeing the son she left behind. [via YahooNews] More >>

Nikolay Malishevsky: Polish GULAG: Hell for Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian prisoners [Feb 14, 2012] Hell Polish concentration camps and captivity has destroyed tens of thousands of our compatriots. For two decades prior to Khatyn and Auschwitz. The military GULAG second Rzeczpospolita is more than a dozen concentration camps, prisons, marshalling yards, and various military sites like Brest fortress (there were four camps) and Modlina . Strza?kowo (in the West of Poland between Poznan and ... [via YahooNews] More >>

After Kirk stroke, colleagues push Polish visa-waiver cause [Feb 14, 2012] Wanda Borowski kisses her husband Steve Kazmeirski on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, in the living room of their home in Carol Stream , Ill. Weighed down by her husband's ruinous debts, Wanda left Poland 25 years ago to find work in the U.S., unaware it would mean two decades without seeing the son she left behind. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish art student hangs own painting in museum [Jan 08, 2012] (01-04) 06:58 PST WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major... [via YahooNews] More >>

Austin's source for local news [Jan 05, 2012] WARSAW, Poland ? Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn?t want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. [via YahooNews] More >>

Offbeat BUT TRUE STORIES [Jan 05, 2012] WARSAW, Poland - Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. By yesterday, the young artist was getting plenty of attention after a nationwide TV channel reported on his stunt at the National Museum in the southwestern city of Wroclaw. He told ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Andrzej Sobiepan, Polish Art Student, Hangs Own Painting In Museum [Jan 04, 2012] WARSAW, Poland Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish art student hangs own painting in museum [Jan 04, 2012] MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. By Wednesday, the young artist was getting plenty of attention after a nationwide TV channel reported on his stunt at the National Museum in the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish art student hangs own painting in museum [Jan 04, 2012] MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. By Wednesday, the young artist was getting plenty of attention after a nationwide TV channel reported on his stunt at the National Museum in the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Art student hangs own painting in major museum in Poland to promote young artists [Jan 04, 2012] WARSAW, Poland ? Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn?t want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. By Wednesday, the young artist was getting plenty of attention after a nationwide TV channel reported on his stunt at the National Museum in the southwestern city of Wroclaw. He told ... [via YahooNews] More >>