Solidarity strike at Lenin Shipyard
1980 · Event
Lech Wałęsa leads strike at Gdańsk; founding of Solidarity, first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc.
On these timelines: Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Master, Eastern Europe & the Balkans
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