European Affairs

» Barbara Pytel - looking forward to the series

As someone who has family in Poland next door, this topic interests me. When I visited Communist Poland in 1981, there were Russian spies in Polish apartment complexes, Russian military planes swooped over us in Poland at 4 a.m. just to remind us they were there, telephone conversations were recorded, radio stations were being jammed when Radio Free Europe came on, and mail was censored. I would venture a guess that old habits die hard.