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How to Honor Poland's Gen. Jaruzelski Divides Country

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Poland was split on Monday over where to bury Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Communist leader who for years helped the Kremlin suppress dissent behind the Iron Curtain before finally allowing democratic rule. Supporters of Jaruzelski, who died on Sunday at age 90 of cancer, said he should be buried with full military honors befitting a former president who outsmarted his masters in the Soviet Union to deliver Poland to freedom without major bloodshed. His opponents say he...

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