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A biographical film about Edward Gierek, the controversial leader who ruled communist Poland in the 1970s, opens in cinemas across the country on Friday. The cast of "Gierek" at the movie's official ...

WARSAW — Former Polish communist leader Edward Gierek, who was toppled in 1980 by a bloodless revolution that produced Solidarity, Eastern Europe’s first independent labor movement, died Sunday. He ...

WARSAW -- Former Polish communist leader Edward Gierek, who was toppled in 1980 during a bloodless revolution that produced Eastern Europe's first independent labor movement, died July 29. He was 88.

Former Polish communist leader Mr Edward Gierek, who was toppled in 1980 by a bloodless revolution that produced Eastern Europe… Former Polish communist leader Mr Edward Gierek, who was toppled in ...

Gierek ruled Poland during the wave of anti-communist protests in the 1970s that gave rise to the Solidarity movement and led to his eventual replacement by hardliner Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. Gierek, ...

Edward Gierek, the communist leader who opened Poland to the outside world, has died aged 88. Many Poles remember the Gierek era as the happiest time in their life Democratic Left Alliance leader ...

EDWARD GIEREK, who has died aged 88, was the First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party from 1970 until 1980, when he was toppled during the general strike led by Lech Walesa, the shipyard ...

WARSAW, Poland -- Edward Gierek, the communist ruler of Poland in the 1970s, has died of a lung illness at the age of 88. Gierek's son, Adam, told the Polish news agency PAP, that he died on Sunday ...

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More than 10,000 people have attended the funeral of the former Polish communist leader, Edward Gierek. Many former communist officials were at the funeral, which took place in Mr Gierek's home town ...