when the communist republic was not supposed to flaunt a symbol of royalty. Red and white became the official colours of Poland as late as in 1919. The appearance of the Polish flag was inscribed in ...

Wojtek Radwanski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The rainbow flag ... wars that have left Poland more deeply divided than perhaps any point since the end of Communist Party rule in 1989.

Jaruzelski’s conversion to communism is difficult to isolate ... the moment by singing the national anthem and raising the Polish flag. The joy was short-lived. Gen. Jaruzelski watched the ...

The Russian and the Polish flags were flying at the Katyn memorial, erected in memory of the 25,000 Poles, mostly army officers deemed anti-communist, massacred by the Soviet Union's political ...