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The longest year? 1989 started in August 1980 – Walesa

By Michael Allen on November 6, 2009

The writing was on the wall (no pun intended) for communism way before the Berlin Wall collapsed, says Lech Walesa. In fact, he feared that the mass exodus of East German “deserters” might provoke the Kremlin and jeopardize Solidarnosc’s struggle for democracy.
But Solidarnosc had stolen the communists’ clothes, organizing the workers with such success that the [read full story]

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Cross-border solidarity – Solidarnosc’s other contribution to democracy

Cross-border solidarity – Solidarnosc’s other contribution to democracy

By Michael Allen on May 20, 2009

Poland’s Solidarity union movement made history by precipitating the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. No small achievement.
But it should also be credited with developing the concept and practice of incremental democratic enlargement, said Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy. “Building on the gains in one country to extend support [read full story]

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