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Article: HUNT FOR COMMUNIST WRONGS ON WANE FEW SEEM TO CARE WHAT LEADERS DID.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 16, 1996
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For people who jailed so many of their opponents, Eastern Europe's communists have spent remarkably little time behind bars themselves in the six years since their overthrow.
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who imposed martial law in Poland in 1981, is the latest former East Bloc leader who could be heading for a quiet retirement.
In many countries, investigations into misdeeds under communist rule have become bogged down in legal and bureaucratic delays or have fizzled out altogether. A common denominator is widespread apathy.
Many of the pre-1989 communist leaders are dead. Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu was executed, and East Germany's Erich Honecker ...