Solidarność means Solidarity, but for Poles it stands for so much more. At the height of its worldwide popularity – which came in the years 1981 to 1983 when stan wojenny (Martial Law) was introduced ...
In the 1980s, Poland was under the grip of martial law as the Communist government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski attempted to repress the independent Solidarity trade union. In Western Europe ...
at the Poland-Belarus border, on November 21, 2021 ( Sefa Karacan - Anadolu Agency ) The leaders of the Visegrad Group voiced solidarity on Tuesday with Poland in the migration crisis along its ...
Gdansk city centre still boasts plaques explaining the city's history as the centre of the Solidarity movement In the old Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where striking workers were once the catalyst ...
In Washington, the Polish ambassador defected to us. He asked President Reagan to light a candle in a White House window on Christmas Eve. This would show solidarity with the beleaguered Poles.