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Demonstrators wave the EU (left) and the Polish flag
Image: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP

Poland

Poland, an EU member since 2004, is the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which helped bring down Soviet-style communism in the late 1980s. It was also the site of some of the 20th century's greatest tragedies.

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