This article explores regulations in Polish criminal law concerning the criminality
of communist crimes, especially the statute of limitations of such crimes. The author briefly
describes the legal situation in this respect after the fall of communism in Poland. She indicates that
at that time there was the need to enact special provisions to enable the prosecution of perpetrators
of communist crimes. Consequently, she evaluates relevant criminal law regulations and stresses
the significance of some of them. The deliberations carried out lead the author to the conclusion
that two specific statutory regulations on the criminality of communist crimes should remain in
force. They should be kept as regulations being a peculiar monument of settling accounts with the
communist past
