31 agos 1980 año - Solidarity Movement in Poland

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In the early 1980s, there were many protests over food shortages in Poland, because of this a trade Union was made, they were called Solidarity. Solidarity was a movement that was non-violent and anti-communist, it claimed some 9.4 million members, and is highly regarded as a great contributing factor to the fall of communism.

Solidarity was founded in September 1980, was forcibly suppressed by the Polish government in December 1981, and reemerged in 1989 to become the first opposition movement to participate in free elections in a Soviet-bloc nation since the 1940s.

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