The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, to prosecute prominent members of Nazi Germany for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ...

Landing the day previous, I set out to explore Warsaw on June 4. The date marks 36 years since the first elections that led to the dissolution of the communist government in Poland. People may have ...

If you looked south from Central Park in New York City at any time in the last decade and knew a few things about both ...

We’ve already worked through the theory that Donald Trump is reviving the expansionist foreign policy of Gilded Age America ...

The Palace of Culture and Science, built in 1952 above the rubble caused by Nazi bombs, was commissioned by Joseph Stalin as “a gift of the Soviet people for the Poles.” ...

On a recent day in Warsaw, a young African man hassled and blocked the paths of pedestrians crossing ulica Emilii Plater, in the shadow of the Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin’s infamous ...

Join Rick Steves for a "best of Poland" special featuring Kraków, Warsaw, Gdańsk and more. This one-hour "best of Poland" special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and ...

A temple of Soviet power that grafts classical columns onto neo-Gothic verticality, the Palace was the tallest building in Poland upon its completion in 1955. Dedicated to Stalin, ...

Poland's vibrant capital is showing up on more travel lists in 2025, ... visitors can look down on the Palace of Culture and Science, the drab landmark Stalin built as the city's highest building.

There is a lot of anxiety, she added, speaking by the Polish capital's soaring Palace of Culture and Science, commissioned in the 1950s by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and which for many Poles ...