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...Norbert Golunski, who runs an 85-acre farm and is $10,000 in debt, might be expected to share that skepticism. But as the former chairman of the regional unit of Rural Solidarity, he is convinced that political means can serve practical ends. "We have to be involved in politics," he explains. "We want economic improvements-that's politics. We want better working conditions-that's politics." What he does not talk about is the widely held suspicion that in northern Poland, Rural Solidarity, having been infiltrated by government agents, delayed farmers' efforts to organize union activities...
...about $2 billion into providing farms with machinery, seeds, fertilizer and other needed goods. Most of the farmers in Borkowo are either unaware or skeptical of the offer. The only thing they are sure of is that the best response to hardship is hard work. "On the farm," says Golunski, "we work only 360 days a year. The rest goes to vacation." -By Pico Iyer. Reported by John Moody/Warsaw
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