Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

October. 01,2019      
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8.8
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Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Agnieszka Holland as  Self - Filmmaker
Pope John Paul II as  Self (archive footage)
Lech Wałęsa as  Self - Politician (archive footage)
Wojciech Jaruzelski as  Self - Politician (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev as  Self - Politician (archive footage)

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