The Russian Communists have a simple formula for dealing with troublemakers like the Polish workers of Poznan who rioted last June: a monster show trial with ranting charges of espionage, counterrevolution, tame confessions and abject apologies. Confronted with the case of the Poznan rioters, the Polish Communists, enjoying a measure of autonomy for the first time, thought they had a better idea: a free and fair trial to show that their regime had merit. But last week, after eight days of free and fair evidence of life under Communism, the embarrassed Polish Communists began desperately seeking a way to...
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