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Solidarity of Poland
- POLAND 1980
- Food and fuel shortages
- Shipyard workers of
Gdansk went on strike
- Their leader was local
plumber Lech Walesa
- Word got around and soon there were nationwide
strikes throughout Poland - 9million strikers
- Created first free Trade Union in USSR
- POLAND 1981
- New leader General Jaruzelski
- Imposed Marshall Law - military
rule by military authorities (army
rules carried out by the army)
- Solidarity declared illegal
- Thousands were arrested (including Walesa)
- POLAND 1982
- Pope Paul II met Ronald Reagan for a meeting
- They wanted to destroy communism in Poland
- Reagan poured money into solidarity
- Pope encouraged
Catholics in Poland
to speak out
- Catholic Priests were
informants for the CIA -
if people confessed to
them, they would tell the
West
- VICAR SPIES!
- VICAR SPIES!
- Walesa was imprisoned but this made him a hero and
solidarity carried on
- November he was released from prison
- POLAND 1983
- Walesa won the Noble Peace Prize
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