WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Solidarity movement played a central role in the drama of ousting communism from Europe and in the breakup of the Soviet Union. Here are five figures in Poland’s transition from communism to democracy, as the nation celebrates 25 years since the June 4, 1989, parliamentary elections that made the transformation possible.
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