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Article: This Time at Gdansk, Solidarity Turns Fractious
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 24, 1988
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"Come with us," shouted the young workers as they marched through
the Lenin shipyard here yesterday, waving a red-and-white Polish flag
and urging their colleagues to come out on strike. It was a shout
that went up at the same shipyard in 1970 and 1980-and changed the
course of Polish history.
On this occasion, however, there were many workers who did not
respond to the famous rallying cry that toppled communist party
leaders Wladyslaw Gomulka and Edward Gierek.
For a reporter who was present at the beginning of the great
strike of August 1980, which gave birth to the Solidarity movement,
the contrasts between then and now are startling. In a way, they sum
up how Poland has changed in the ...