Word: solidarnosc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone had forgotten about the coup d'etat Jaruzelski had engineered and about his violent crack-down against Solidarnosc. At the time, Western nations reacted to such outrageous act firmly, isolating Poland politically and levying economic sanctions...
WHEN CARDINAL Karol Woytila was elected pope, Poles expected to have a strong champion beyond their government's reach. John Paul II did initially give strong support to the Solidarnosc movement and the Danzig agreements...
...great losers in all this are Lech Walesa and the other Solidarnosc leaders. They are out of jail, but--without strong support from the Church--they have fallen into oblivion. In 1983, Virginio Levi, Director of the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, was fired for writing an editorial saying what the Church would not admit: that Walesa and Solidarnosc had been sacrificed...
...Reagan and Co.'s anti-Soviet was drive they refuse to defend the social gains of October 1917 and equate U.S. imperialism with the Soviet workers state, spitting on the greatest victory of the international working class. The ISO supports Reagan and the Vatican's company union in Poland, Solidarnosc, whose counterrevolutionary attempt was thankfully spiked...
...adamantly oppose state persecution of citizens for purely ideological "crimes." But Soviet traitors like the Sakharovs, who give concrete aid to U.S. imperialism should be tried for their crimes. It is the height of hypocrisy for the ISO to accuse the SYL of anti-Semitism when their heroes in Solidarnosc look to Joseph Pilsudski, fascistic interwar dictator of Poland, as their model. Pilsudski set up concentration camps for Jews before World War II but didn't get a chance to use them because Hitler invaded first...