Quotes of the Day

Anti-communists with pictures of people who lost their lives under the 1981 martial law, chant anti -communist slogans in a Warsaw court in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012.
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

Open quoteIn order to defend ourselves in the future against other totalitarian regimes, we have to understand how they worked in the past.Close quote

  • LUKASZ KAMINSKI,
  • president of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance; many nations in Central and Eastern Europe are coming to terms with their communist past through government actions and cultural explorations
Photo: Czarek Sokolowski / AP | Source: New York Times