Poland’s trade union movement helped set in motion the fall of the Soviet Union
Multiple articles concerning Poland’s Solidarity have appeared in press around the world as part of the “We tell the world about Poland” project commemorating the 40th anniversary of the famous strikes in Gdańsk, including one from Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
“Solidarity must become a project for all of Europe – it is our proposal for the upcoming decade of development,” Morawiecki wrote in an article which appeared in new outlets such as Italy’s La Repubblica, France’s L’Opinion, Spain’s ABC, Sweden’s Goeteborgs-Posten, and Czechia’s Lidovych Novinach.
Other participants in the “We tell the world about Poland” project included professor Wojciech Roszkowski, who wrote for L’Opinion that between August 1980 and December 1981, when “Solidarity” was born, processes which decided the fate of Poland and the world were initiated.