After the fall of the Communists in 1989, Poland joined NATO in 1999 & this economic group of nations on May 1, 2004
Hungary's entry into NATO in 1999 symbolized its elite status with Poland 
and... [DOC] [TLE] The New Europe: CQR [PAR] After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former Eastern bloc began emerging from its 
communist ... Poland and the nine other former communist countries that have 
joined the ...