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...only did the other side have an army, but that army had some awesome guests on hand last week. The Bydgoszcz protests coincided with the beginning of "Soyuz 81" maneuvers to test Warsaw Pact military communications. The maneuvers were centered at Legnica, headquarters for the 40,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland. They made it even easier for Moscow to move against Solidarity if it wanted to. Thus Walesa was cautiously trying to avoid any confrontation...
...Soviet units already stationed inside the country as part of the Warsaw Pact force facing NATO across Central Europe. The Soviet troops, which are estimated to number 40,000, are concentrated in two locations, in the northwest near the rural hamlet of Borne and in the southwest at Legnica, a city of 75,000, where their main headquarters is situated. Each base accommodates a tank division of about 10,000 troops, 350 T-64 and T-72 tanks and more than 2,000 other vehicles. These armored combat forces also include communications and logistical units and are backed...
...Polish landscape. The scenes on these pages, photographed by Romano Cagnoni, show how the Soviet presence is seen and felt in many ways, from the headlights of a military convoy cutting through the twilight, to the scowling face of a passing officer, to young troops chatting on a Legnica street along with other window-shoppers...
...assigned to the headquarters in Legnica are cut off from the town. The officers live in a sprawling, fortress-like compound covering some six square blocks. Sequestered behind high walls lie clusters of small houses, blocks of apartments, a library, a commissary, a club and other facilities needed to support several thousand officers and dependents. An adjoining complex of bar racks for the enlisted men is similarly self-contained...
...Warsaw, meanwhile, union leaders called a four-hour bus and streetcar strike at week's end to protest threatened pay cuts for workers who had stayed away from their jobs the previous Saturday. Other stoppages took place in the southern towns of Legnica and Mielec. Solidarity accused the Warsaw authorities of reneging on a promise to reduce the work week from six to five days. The government had granted the concession during negotiations that ended last summer's crippling national strike wave...