Poland
Americannoun
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In 1952, Poland became a people's republic on the Soviet model.
During World War II, about six million Poles, including three million Jews (see also Jews), died from German massacres, starvation, and execution in concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
Poland joined NATO in 1999.
Poland was a great power from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, but in the eighteenth century it was partitioned three times among Austria, Prussia, and Russia. It was again recognized as an independent state in 1919.
In 1989, Solidarity-backed candidates swept to victory in free elections, but Solidarity subsequently declined sharply as a political force.
The Solidarity movement, which demanded greater worker control in Poland, emerged in the early 1980s as one of the first signs of popular discontent with single-party rule and the communist economic system.
The invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 precipitated World War II.
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The new restrictions set off a torrent of protests throughout the country, which became the largest mass demonstrations in Poland since the 1989 anti-communist movement.
From Barron's
Sweden, Germany and Poland have directly approached France to ask for wider European cover on top of the protection already offered to Nato allies by the UK, the only other nuclear power in Europe.
From BBC
The Poland forward notched over 30 goals in all but three of the past 14 seasons, though his impact goes beyond just finishing - he also has 141 assists.
From BBC
He said eight other European countries – the UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden and Denmark – had agreed to participate in a new "advanced deterrence" strategy.
From BBC
Grynspan recounted that her parents, who were from Poland, "barely survived" World War II. Her maternal grandparents were killed in the Holocaust.
From Barron's
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