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31/08/1980 Solidarity emerges as a leading anti-communist force in East

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1980: Lech Walesa - Solidarity

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Solidarity Poland 1981

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Solidarity victory in Polish elections: 1989

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Solidarność | Solidarity Trade Union movement | Cold War | Poland | TV Eye | 1982

Solidarity is a Polish labor union that was founded in 1980 under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa. It was the 1st trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Its membership reached 9.5 million members before its 1981 September Congress, which constituted one-third of the total working-age population of Poland.