"All our misery," said a defense lawyer in a tense Poznan courtroom last week, "stems from the fact that we have not told the truth for many years and that now we must tell it." Then, as the court handed down a series of lenient sentences (18 months to 6 years, and some suspensions) on young men charged with the heinous crime of fighting against the Communist authority, all Poland began to feel that the time might soon come when the truth about Poland would be told. Said an old Communist, blighted by years of purgings: "This is the...
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