Poland has introduced a new law aimed at removing from authority officials who collaborated with the secret police before 1989.
Former Polish spies who attempt to falsify their past will be punished for commiting a crime and could risk not working in their field for up to 10 years under Thursday’s new law - said to involve about 300,000 Poles.
The law requires hundreds of thousands of Poles in positions of authority born before 1972, including academics, journalists and state company executives, to state in writing whether they co-operated with the spy network of the Soviet-backed government before Poland overthrew communism in 1989.
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