Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
Solidarity strike in Gdańsk (1980)
On the Cold War map as “The Lenin Shipyard”
Aug 1980 — Electrician Lech Wałęsa climbs the fence to lead a strike; Solidarity becomes a 10-million-member free trade union inside the bloc — until martial law, Dec 1981. The idea survives the tanks.
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- Afghanistan and the Second Cold War (chapter 10 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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