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Solidarity

How a Trade Union Defeated Communism

52 min

Dostępny od 10/09/2025

After decades of a communist regime in Poland, the creation of the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain was a decisive moment. In 1980 workers in the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk founded Solidarnosc (Solidarity), which eventually brought down communism.

Director

Ania Szczepanska

Country

Germany

Year

2019

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