Poland Marks 26th Anniversary Of Solidarity Movement
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Warsaw, Poland (AHN) - Poland is marking the 26th anniversary of the Solidarity labor union that was instrumental in the collapse of communism within the Eastern European nation. Polish President Lech Kaczynski led ceremonies in Gdansk and awarded 70 activists with medals of merit for their role in worker protests in the 1980's. Kaczynski says, "Today is the day of the victorious people, of the heroes of the 1980s." According to the International Herald Tribune, at a separate ceremony outside the Gdansk shipyard, Solidarity founder and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa laid flowers and sang the national anthem at a monument to shipyard workers killed by riot police in 1970. Walesa says the movement led to "the opening of possibilities for uniting Europe and for later globalization." "This is a truly great and joyous date."
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