Europe must also come to terms with its communist past.
Every step forward seems to be paired with a move back, in the direction of the hard Communist past.
The Communist past can be blamed for poor construction, at least.
What may look like an effort to reconcile with the Communist past is something else entirely.
For any outsider, every problem is always justified by Poland's communist past.
The intention was to hand over to a new social democratic party and a younger generation of leaders less tainted with the communist past.
Television was shameless in its endless attacks on the Communist past.
The first free parliamentary election, held in May 1990, was a plebiscite of sorts on the communist past.
He is also troubled by the Czech republic's failure to deal adequately with the communist past.
He based his assessment on a 660-page report compiled by a presidential commission charged with analyzing the country's Communist past.
