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...used to say when reacting to peaceful rhetoric from the West, "One must distinguish between words and deeds." That advice has always applied particularly to the U.S.S.R. Soviet foreign policy has been marked by tactical retreats and no- more-Mr.-Tough-Guy public relations campaigns before. In 1919 Vladimir Lenin cautioned his Foreign Minister, Georgi Chicherin, who was preparing to address an international conference in Genoa, "Never mind the hard language." Lenin pursued conciliatory policies toward Poland and the then independent Baltic states. By the 1940s, those nations had all been brutally incorporated into the Soviet empire...
...around noon, the 63 Senderista women and 120 men in a nearby cellblock break for an "agitation," in which they rattle the bars and hurl earsplitting insults at their guards. For recreation, there is volleyball in a pavilion's patio, under red-painted panels that pay homage to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Close to the top of the walls the Senderistas have daubed, in red paint, a paraphrase of the Chairman's poetry: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO DARE TO SCALE THE HEIGHTS...
...reaction of strikes that recalled the dramatic 1980 movement that gave birth to the independent Solidarity labor union. In the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz, bus and tram drivers paralyzed the public transport system for twelve hours and won a 63% pay raise. Next day workers struck at the sprawling Lenin steel mill near the southern city of Cracow, while employees at a military-equipment plant in the southeastern city of Stalowa Wola reportedly won large wage demands after putting down their tools at week...
Next day more than 14,000 workers at the Lenin steelworks went on strike in the drab Cracow suburb of Nowa Huta. Besides seeking 50% pay hikes for themselves, they insisted that compensatory payments be doubled for millions of other Poles. The Nowa Huta strikers also called for reinstatement of four fired Solidarity activists...
...Gdansk, the area around the Lenin shipyard was cordoned off by thousands of police. The shipyard went on strike Monday, its fourth strike since April...