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Poland's Solidarity: The Shipyard Strike That Shook the Soviet Bloc
In August 1980, an electrician named Lech Wałęsa climbed over the fence of the Gdańsk Shipyard and ignited a movement that would, within a decade, help bring down the Iron Curtain. This episode traces the origins of Solidarność — the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc — from the 1970 workers' protests in Gdańsk and Gdynia, through the arrest of Wałęsa and the rise of the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR), to the dramatic August 1980 strike that forced the communist government to sign the Gdańsk Agreement. We explore the role of Anna Walentynowicz, whose firing sparked…
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