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Article: Horror of arrest for Walesa's wife Series: Lech Walesa's story
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 11, 1987
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He was the spark that ignited the most explosive social movement
in Eastern Europe in nearly half a century. Serving as the
fist-waving spiritual head of Solidarity, Lech Walesa gave his
countrymen brief hope that they could splinter the heavy yoke of
Soviet domination. Now, in A Way of Hope, an autobiography compiled
secretly during the last three years, he tells the story of his life,
his movement and his deeply patriotic love for Poland.
In this fourth of five excerpts from the book, he chronicles the
last days of Solidarity as a legal trade union and his imprisonment
by Poland's brutal security police.
During Solidarity's heyday, when things were happening at a
hectic rate, I used ...