Poland's last communist-era leaders, General Wojciech Jaruzelski (L), 87, and Stanislaw Kania stand trial for "Communist Crimes" at a courthouse in Warsaw on MArch 7, 2011. On December 13, 1981, Jaruzelski launched a military crackdown to smother the independent trade union Solidarity, which was founded a year earlier and had snowballed into the Soviet bloc's biggest opposition movement. AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI