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Poland's Solidarity Movement: The Workers Who Brought Down Communism
In August 1980, a strike at the Gdańsk Shipyard ignited a movement that would reshape Poland and the world. This episode explores the birth of Solidarność — the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc — and its charismatic leader, Lech Wałęsa. We follow the tense negotiations between striking workers and communist authorities, the 21 demands posted on shipyard walls, and the role of the Catholic Church under Pope John Paul II. We also examine the movement's suppression under martial law in 1981, its underground survival, and its ultimate triumph in the 1989 Round Table Talks…
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