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RR8037 POLAND REPORT

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(12 Sep 1980)
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1. Walesa carried on shoulders of cheering crowd;
2. Gierek with Leonid Brezhnev and other Communist leaders at Warsaw Pact meeting;
3. still picture of Kania;
4. official trade union building;
5. street scenes in major Polish cities, with pedestrians, shoppers, young and old, apartment blocks, Polski Fiat cars, and food shops;
6. views of Gdansk and shipyards;
7. occupied Lenin shipyard and Walesa address;
8. wooden cross in memory of workers killed in 1970 disturbances;
9. workers sleep, listen to radio broadcasts, play cards and listen to loudspeakers;
10. scenes in Szczecin and Lodz as strike spreads;
11. map of Poland;
12. mining scenes in Silesia and striking miners;
13. signing of Silesia agreement, and Gdansk workers celebrating their own victory;
14. interview with political commentator Wieslaw Gornicki on the situation;
15. countryside and farming scenes;
16. people arrive at Warsaw church for Sunday mass;
18. Pope's visit to his homeland in 1979;
19. cheering shipyard workers, and Walesa waving.
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STORYLINE:
RR8037 POLAND REPORT
Background to story: Recent weeks have brought unexpected and far-reaching changes
in Poland. Striking shipyard workers in Gdansk, led by previously unknown Lech
Walesa, won a number of concessions from the government, including the right to set
up their own trade union, independent of the government and Communist Party,
something unprecedented in Eastern Europe. The miners of Silesia have won similar
concessions. But no sooner had party leader Eduard Gierek agreed to the demands
than he was removed from power, making way for Stanislaw Kania, a man with a state
security background. Kania, however, has pledged to honour all the concessions,
although warnings have been sounded that continued strike action could lose the
workers some of their new gains.
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3 Comments

@mankyraver 2 months ago

Great to see this. I like looking at how Gdańsk looked in the 1980s. It's all been repaired, repainted, rennovated and rebuilt since then, and looks infinitely better. Interesting report❤

@alh6255 2 weeks ago

Correcting the nonsense in the video regarding the history of Gdańsk: the truth is that for many centuries, Gdańsk was a main port city of the Kingdom of Poland; its impressive houses, port facilities, and warehouses were built—and its economy developed—thanks to privileges granted by Polish kings. It only fell into Prussian hands at the end of the 18th century, after Prussia, Russia, and Austria jointly invaded Poland and partitioned its territory among themselves (Gdańsk briefly returned to Poland during the Napoleonic era with the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, intended to spark Poland's rebirth following a decade of Prussian, Russian, and Austrian occupation). After Napoleon's defeat, Gdańsk once again fell under Prussian control (though it was briefly held by the Russians as well). Following the establishment of the German Empire in the second half of the 19th century, an intense process of Germanization began in the city. After World War I (1918), Gdańsk was slated to return to Poland, but German intervention resulted in it becoming the "Free City of Gdańsk," under joint Polish and German administration. In 1939, upon the outbreak of World War II, Gdańsk was incorporated into Nazi Germany. In 1945, the city was completely destroyed by the attacking Soviet forces. The Poles reclaimed it a few months later and rebuilt it during the late 1940s and the 1950s—specifically, they reconstructed the parts of the city linked to Poland: its historic districts and monuments.