BUCHAREST, Romania -- Abandoned mines in Romania leach waters contaminated by heavy metals into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tons of toxic substances a year. Soil in ...

With a proclaimed socialist, and some claiming the individual is actually a communist, running in the New York City mayoral race, a renewed debate about the three “isms” of socialism, communism and ...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA has twice been in need of the world’s help when threatened by the aggressiveness of its neighbors. Help did not come when Hitler dismembered the country in 1938 or when the Russians ...

This large poster, purporting to be a "Special Edition" of the "Prague Journal," was in fact part of the campaign to prevent a communist victory in the pivotal Italian election of 1948. It uses a map ...

The Solidarity Movement was born in Poland 45 years ago and paved the way for the end of communism in Europe. In August 1980, workers laid down their tools and raised their voices. They were demanding ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday approved the beatification of 11 "martyr" priests killed by the Nazi or Communist regimes in Europe in ...

Now 30 years removed from 1989's "annus mirabilis" -- Central and Eastern Europe's year of miracles, when communist regimes seemingly toppled like dominoes -- it's easy to focus on the Western ...

(Reuters) - Today they are 18 years old. In 1989 when the young generation was born, communist regimes fell all over eastern Europe. Here is a chronology of the fall of former communist regimes ...

Recently, I was given a gift by my aunt, a collection of civillian metals given to my Great-Uncle Miklós by the Hungarian Communist Party. The metals were given to him for serving in the party, where ...

Proclamation by Leo XIV honors 9 Polish Salesian priests killed at Dachau and Auschwitz during WWII, diocesan pair executed ...

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