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There was little doubt about the motivation behind the determined harmony inside Poland: the continuing menace of 55 Soviet divisions that remained poised within striking distance of Poland's borders. On New Year's Day, in fact, TASS issued a communiqué that accused "antisocialist forces" in Solidarity of seeking "to push matters to the point of chaos in the economy, hoping to further their subversive aims...
...limits on such "democracy," however, were clear from the intensifying official campaign against "antisocialist elements." The leader of one dissident fringe group was arrested last week after calling for an end to Communist rule in a West German TV interview. Jacek Kuron, head of the far more influential KOR dissident group, was also denounced in a government news program that broadcast edited excerpts of a Swedish interview in which he appeared to favor the violent overthrow of the Communist regime. In Kuron's defense, Walesa warned that slandering KOR members could be a violation of the Gdansk agreement...
...same time, the party also seemed intent on trying to divide the workers from their intellectual backers. The official press last week stepped up its campaign against "antisocialist elements" and specifically denounced KOR, the dissident group that has been advising the strikers. Explained KOR's leader, Sociologist Jacek Kuron: "They want to rid the [independent labor] movement of activists so that they can take over and do what they did with the official trade unions...
...Soviet press, meanwhile, continued its campaign against "antisocialist elements and Western imperialist propaganda." In particular, Pravda blasted AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and other U.S. labor leaders for sending aid to "antigovernment" Polish strikers and labor unions. The American leaders, warned Pravda, "are profoundly mistaken in thinking that their interference in the internal affairs of the sovereign Polish state will go unnoticed...
...will not be tolerated,'' he said. "Only a socialist Poland can be a free and independent state with inviolable borders. There are certain limits beyond which we must not go." Gierek noted that "only people of ill will fail to see this." Such people, he warned, were "anarchic, antisocialist groups" attempting to use the strikes for political ends...