Word: polskiego
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...second day, printers at Poland's largest printing plant, Dom Slowa Polskiego (House of the Polish Word), voted overwhelmingly to continue the protest. They had to be persuaded to return to work by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who told them that immediate concessions by the government were not possible. Walesa warned, however, that if the strike produced no results, another confrontation was "inevitable," and that Solidarity's next target would be the country's radio and television networks. Walesa seemed in unusually low spirits, lamenting, without explaining, that Solidarity members had "become shaky, scared and full...
...group of young men who tried to separate the cops from the drunk were quickly joined by habitues of the Pod Jeleniem and Pod Gryfem bars and the Centralna and Magnolia cafes. Soon the Aleja Wojska Polskiego was crowded with 2,000 grim, destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were...
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