Nearly two decades after the fall of communism, Europe’s former Moscow-dominated states are using the Internet to make public the files of the security services that helped keep their regimes in power.

In the latest step, the body in charge of Poland’s communist-era secret police files began Tuesday posting documents related to top officials, including the President Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

The material on the special site of National Remembrance Institute (IPN) was hardly shocking, and simply confirmed that both Kaczynskis were spied on and harassed by the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa police because of their anti-communist activities in the 1970s and 1980s.

But the possibility of peeking into the SB archives — which cover people who were spies, victims, or both — was such a draw for Poles that users swamped the IPN’s site.