Word: bialoleka
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...still held in about 40 camps around the country. Among the few visitors they have been permitted to receive is Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Primate of Poland, who is said to have traveled to all the camps. Last month he was allowed behind the walls of the top-security Bialoleka prison near Warsaw, where some 300 Solidarity activists are held in isolation. TIME has obtained a rare photo of the Primate's visit to Bialoleka, as well as the remarkable diary of a Solidarity member who is imprisoned there. Smuggled out of Poland, these documents reveal for the first...
Singing such hymns could well provoke another nighttime search of the cells of the 300 men imprisoned here in the Bialoleka detention camp. Suddenly the cell doors burst open and the detainees are thrown out into the corridors to be frisked meticulously. In the meantime, police tear the cells apart, looking for cameras, tape recorders and especially the small radios that are the prisoners' main source of news from the outside world. The news is passed on in bulletins that travel from cell to cell via hidden openings drilled through the walls...
...Polish, the word for snowman, balwan, has a second meaning: blockhead or dummy. Prisoners at the Bialoleka detention camp no doubt had that ambiguity in mind when they dressed a snowman in a general's cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. The repercussions were recounted in From Day to Day, an underground Solidarity bulletin that was closed down by security forces in Wroclaw last week...
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