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The Murder of Father Popieluszko.(Book Review)
Reasons of State: To Kill a Polish Priest, by Kevin Ruane; HarperCollins, 2002, $24.95.
STRIKER BROKE OUT in communist Poland in July 1980, leading to the emergence of the independent Solidarity trade union. The trade union grew into a massive social movement, challenging the ruling party and enjoying a hard-won legal existence until General Jaruzelski brought down martial law overnight on December 12-13, 1981, rounding up thousands of Solidarity activists in the process.
Resistance to Jaruzelki's regime was to continue through the dark and troubled years until communist rule was finally broken at the end of the decade. Kevin Ruane was the BBC's ...
- The truth behind the Murder of Father Popieluszko.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Karwowski, Michael December 1, 2004 700+ words
...Priest. The Murder of Father Popieluszko and the Fall of Communism. Kevin...politicians but to Poles such as Father Popieluszko, who fought for justice and refused...give up, even unto death. Jerzy Popieluszko was an unlikely hero, if an extremely...
- Jerzy Popieluszko: a martyr for the truth.
- Magazine article from: National Review Williamson, Chilton, Jr. June 28, 1985 700+ words
GRAZYNA SIKORSKA'S Jerzy Popieluszko: A Martyr for the Truth (Wm...church in Poland. Already Father Popieluszko had come to the attention of Cardinal...discussion that followed, Father Popieluszko was singled out as the first priest...
- Now Solidarity has a martyr. (Jerzy Popieluszko)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Ost, David March 2, 1985 700+ words
...police assassins of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko has ended. Police Captain Grzegorz...had considered for silencing Father Popieluszko--planting illegal material on him...Internal Affairs, forbade them to arrest Popieluszko. He recited a litany of "illegal acts...
- Murdering Poland. (death of Father Jerzy Popieluszko)
- Magazine article from: National Review March 8, 1985 700+ words
...politics of the murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko remain murky. At the end of the trial...take place. Was the killing of Father Popieluszko part of a plot to embarrass General...authorities," said Lopatka, was that "Popieluszko was not imprisoned long ago when he...
- Behind the murder of a Polish priest. (Jerzy Popieluszko)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report November 12, 1984 700+ words
...mourned the murder of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, a pro-Solidarity cleric, the stage...The popular 37-year-old Father Popieluszko, regarded as a spiritual leader of...called for a 1-hour strike during Popieluszko's funeral and set up committees in...
- Popieluszko's killer released
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London October 29, 1994 700+ words
Grzegorz Piotrowski, a former security police captain jailed for the 1984 murder of the pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, was released on parole, Reuters reports.
- A prophecy, a protest, a priest. (Letter from Europe; Jerzy Popieluszko)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Singer, Daniel December 15, 1984 700+ words
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