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When the poet Anna Akhmatova was waiting in line outside a prison in Lenin grad during a time of political apocalypse - the Yezhov terror - a woman with lips blue from the cold asked her, "Can you describe this...
...have succeeded: an eerie calm settled over most of Poland's cities on the morning of the demonstrations. By midafternoon, however, groups of protesters had begun to gather. In Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born two years ago, 4,000 employees filed out of the Lenin shipyard to lay flowers on a towering, triple-spired memorial to workers killed in the 1970 riots. Police and soldiers ringed the monument to prevent other demonstrators from joining the workers. Suddenly, the paramilitary police force, known as ZOMO, rolled toward the monument in three columns of Jeeps, armored personnel carriers...
...underlies many of the arguments advanced here, and not all of it is directed against the Soviets. The author frets that "the resolve and the military capability of the West had since 1918 been sapped by an uncritical hankering for peace." Among the hankerers, they comment snidely, were what Lenin called "useful fools," and these fainthearts were quick to join "socalled 'peace movements,' unobtrusively orchestrated and largely paid for by the U.S.S.R...
There have been signs that some fac tions in Solidarity have reluctantly begun to take to heart the government's tough talk. A bulletin issued this month by the leadership of an underground Solidarity chapter at the Lenin shipyard at Gdansk called for calm and restraint so that the government would have time to honor its commitment to continue reform. Economic hardships have clearly blunted the enthusiasm of many supporters for a confrontation with the regime...
...government signed a national accord two years ago with Solidarity, the true depth of the "invisible" hatred had yet to be measured. However unlikely another outburst of widespread national unrest seemed last week, it still could not be counted out. There is a precedent: two years ago at the Lenin shipyard, when one strike came to an end and another of a totally different sort began...