In what could be the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning with the crimes of ex-Communists, two Polish secret-police generals were arrested in Warsaw last week and charged with "directing" the October 1984 murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a popular and fervent supporter of the then banned Solidarity labor union. Though four others have been convicted in the case, the two generals are the highest-ranking officials implicated in the killing so far.
The government's action came a few days after former Interior Minister General Miroslaw Milewski, who was the Politburo member responsible for the state-security police in 1984, was apprehended on charges...