WARSAW: "Poland - 10 years, Hungary - 10 months, East Germany - 10 weeks, Czechoslovakia - 10 days. So chirped many in Prague in November 1989, reflecting the pride and the joy of the Velvet Revolution, but also the sustained effort that was needed (...)
In Paris, West Berlin, London, and Rome, the spring of 1968 was marked by student protests against the Vietnam War. In Warsaw, too, students were protesting, but their cause was not the same as their Western counterparts. Young Poles took to the (...)
