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A DIARY FROM POLAND: SOLIDARITY'S BEGINNING; A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, THE UNION SOLIDARITY WAS FORMED OUT; OF THE STRIKES AT THE GDANSK SHIPYARD; AUGUST 28, 1980
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A DIARY FROM POLAND: SOLIDARITY'S BEGINNING; A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, THE UNION SOLIDARITY WAS FORMED OUT; OF THE STRIKES AT THE GDANSK SHIPYARD; AUGUST 28, 1980
1981
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Warsaw today is gray on gray. Storm clouds brood over the utilitarian buildings that line its streets. The city was rebuilt virtually from nothing after World War II, fashioned from memory and old city plans and the gloomyvision of party architects. Its reconstruction is indeed the miracle that successive governments have claimed it is, but inevitably it is flawed. As often happens with such plastic surgery, the repair work is as evident as the feature itself. The effect is a rather constant sense of the kind experienced in meeting an old friend whose appearance has changed drastically. One is reminded of something else - in this case, of Warsaw. Flowers and trees are present everywhere but scarcely noticeable, and newer structures are almost uniformly free of cheerfulness or fancy. The clouds might be tied permanently to the buildings. In everything, there is the reminder that winter comes again. Balancing himself on one crutch, he brings both hands together and pumps them back and forth in the manner of a man firing a machine gun. Pure fright takes over for a long moment before I can think to find the map I have carried since coming to Poland. The tailor points a thick finger toward the spot marked Gdansk. He is repeating the pantomime of the machine gun as I leave. The hour belongs to [Lech Walesa], and it may be his best ever in public. Virtually unselfconscious from the combination of strain and exhaustion, he maneuvers himself and [Miecslaw Yagielski] through the ceremony with the sheer exuberant force of his personality and the momentum that has built for weeks. Heedless of television cameras, he acts like a bridegroom outside the church, nervously smoothing his hairline, exhaling almost audible sighs, gently moving Yagielski into place when protocol is uncertain. He signs the agreement on behalf of the workers with an outsized red and white pen, a popular souvenir from Pope [John Paul II]'s journey to Poland.
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