Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)

October 1st, 20190h 52min

Documentary, History, TV Movie
70%

Overview

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.


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