I stayed in student dorms in Swedish university towns and plush colonial-era houses in Madrid via communist-built tower blocks on the outskirts of Wroclaw in Poland.

我曾经住在瑞典大学城的学生宿舍里，马德里一间殖民时期房子里的一张豪华沙发上，以及波兰弗罗茨瓦夫郊外的一幢公共高层住宅。

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Sociologist Justyna Kopczynska from Warsaw University explains that young people in Poland realize that the communist government was repressive.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Poland's historic roundtable talks between the banned Solidarity trade union and the ruling Communist Party took place in the spring of 1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Poland's first post communist president, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa also mourned Mr.Kaczynski's death Saturday, despite tensions between the two men.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

Later, in post-Communist Poland, he tried to reduce mistrust between Catholics and Jews, making public apologies for historical acts of anti-Semitism.

BBC: Poland's Cardinal Jozef Glemp dies, aged 83

Consider the case of Andrew Grove, who at age 20 escaped Communist Poland and immigrated to America, where he received his education and started Intel.

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On Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI travels to Turkey for what could be the most difficult papal trip since his predecessor, John Paul II, visited Communist Poland in 1979.

NPR: Tensions in Turkey Rise Ahead of Papal Visit