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Article: Brave women, but not sisters; Poland.(Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland)(Book Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2005
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WHEN General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law in Poland on December 12th 1981, most of the male leaders of the trade union Solidarity were imprisoned. It was women who kept the organisation going. They dodged the secret police, forged papers, gave underground seminars and produced a clandestine mass-circulation newspaper, which the authorities repeatedly, but vainly, tried to suppress. Their chauvinism meant they assumed that the conspirators they were seeking must be men. During house searches, the secret police would usually neglect to investigate anything connected with women or children. Consequently, piles of nappies became one of the most preferred hiding ...
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