Stalinism in Poland/end of Communist Rule 1980-1990

Famous quotes containing the words poland, communist and/or rule:

    It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.
    Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)

    I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    Here’s the rule for bargains: “Do other men, for they would do you.” That’s the true business precept.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)