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Word: inowroclaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1981-1981
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...parliamentary commission had recommended legalizing the farm union ealier in the week, but last-minute quibbles delayed the agreement for three more days, and tensions began to rise. On the eve of the signing, 100 farmers took over a municipal building in nearby Inowroclaw, not unlike the 100 or so other protesters who had already been occupying the Bydgoszcz headquarters of the government-controlled United Peasants' Party for a month. The breakthrough finally came when peasant leaders agreed to refrain from staging new protests and to recognize the leading role of the Communist Party in their forthcoming charter. Nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Fighting for an Idea, A Farmers' Union | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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