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Music and Art at the Ukrainian Institute of America
Posted by Apple Blossom on September 01, 2005 at 19:16:14:
Anna Walentynowicz is" the mother of modern Poland," a former labor heroine, religious activist and free trade union leader over whose firing one month before retirement the Gdansk shipyard strike started on August 14, 1980. The strike gave birth to Solidarity--and led to the rebirth of free and independent Poland and the collapse of communism.