Word: gdansk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forcing an early election. But most Solidarity legislators seem to prefer remaining in government and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Even though his drastic economic reforms have cut living standards as much as 40%, polls of Poles show that he is more popular than Walesa. Lech is sulking in Gdansk...
...Time were looking for one man who did break up the old bloc, it would have to go back to the beginning of the decade, when an electrician named Lech Walesa was trying to organize a union called Solidarity in the Gdansk shipyards...