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Three years apart in age, the brother and sister grew up in a tiny village in eastern Poland, helping out on the family farm and going to church each Sunday under pressure from their parents. Today, the siblings, Monika Zochowska, 38, and her brother, Szymon, 41, are separated by a wide gulf opened by politics…
In a storefront window in Warsaw stood at what first glance appeared to be a mannequin in a mustard-colored sweatshirt. Only it was not a mannequin, but a 22-year-old man. He stood motionless with his arm outstretched holding a shopping bag, beside two real mannequins in jeans. Once the store closed, the man leaped into…
Shocked by exit polls on Sunday night indicating that opposition forces had won enough seats in Parliament to oust Poland’s nationalist governing party, Polish state television briefly halted its nonstop abuse of government opponents as traitors. One previously vicious anchor even called them “my dears.” But it was only a momentary wobble. By Monday, as…
Centrist and progressive parties appear best placed to form a new coalition government in Poland, according to exit polls following elections on Sunday, despite the governing nationalist Law and Justice party winning the most votes for any single party. Exit polling on Sunday showed a strong second-place finish by the main opposition group, Civic Coalition,…
