Tadeusz Mazowiecki

When East met West and the embrace that spoke a thousand words

The gesture between the two leaders, published by media around the world, heralded a new peaceful relationship among the neighbours. Adam Hawałej/PAP

Thirty years ago today saw Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Chancellor Helmut Kohl met and hug, the first visible sign of reconciliation. TFN’s Joanna Jasińska looks back at the historical event.

History in the making as Round Table talks held 30 years ago today began process which would eventually lead to the collapse of communism

On the anniversary of the historic Round Table talks, TFN’s Stuart Dowell talks to the man who captured ‘the beginning of the end’ of communism, photographer Jarosław Maciej Goliszewski.

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