stolen sold stored september 7th on d. w. . juicy stone and one set that imposing communism. was like watching a subtle on top of the poems are grapples. i believe that the full of the berlin wall would not have been possible without solid dominoes and the reforms files poems. communist propaganda films celebrated the new prosperity of the polish people's republic. in the 1970 s. poles could now also buy western products like jeans and coca-cola in the country's 1st big department stores. in warsaw communist party officials officially opened the country's 1st modern highways which would soon be filled with fear at cars imported from italy and also made in poland. but poland relied on loans from western countries to pay for all this the people's republic was living on credit. in reality there were widespread shortages and in this so-called workers' paradise the communist elites enjoyed privileges that those workers could only dream of. and those shortages also extended to food production and distribution people had to wait in long lines outside shops. even supplies of bread to run though. the 1st major strikes began in 1970 and even though they were strictly forbidden by law factories and shipyards across the country were effectively shut down. as a result some workers were fired or even arrested. the government intended to crush the rebellion it ordered the secret police to covertly film all suspects the authorities wanted to sow fear and mistrust in order to divide people. and discourage protests. the police's strategy was to wear people down. their surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere. and even when there were no cameras people still felt they were being watched. this constant surveillance poisoned the everyday lives of the polish people. these pictures were taken by officers of the ministry of public security the best speaker . the ministry was often referred to as the heart of the communist party and its role was to infiltrate society as the earliest possible and to maximize state control over the population. everyone knew this 7 things you might say at home could not be repeated in public. poland's big brother the soviet union was also keeping an eye on the situation officials from moscow were constantly on the lookout for any signs of polish descent. after the war and the yalta conference we became dependent on moscow. was for what you could be over not free to choose the political system we lived under for the book in the shadows of the church. in 1976 members of the opposition joined forces and founded the workers' defense committee known by its. polish initials as the k o r most of the members were students or intellectuals the organization raised money provided legal assistance and generally tried to maintain the morale of the workers who've been arrested as enemies of the state. i knew that my phone was tapped and that i was being filmed and monitors that started in 1975 after i was arrested at your small airport plus my husband and i had 2 or 3 big suitcases full of books with us books and polish in french. these old books about the situation and the so-called eastern bloc. then known as the socialist or soviet bloc but analyzed from the western perspective of the hog. the k o r soon made its actions more public also eager to attract media coverage in the west. in warsaw near st martins church the cayo are called on hunger strike to show support for imprisoned workers. the secret police filmed the strikers and recorded their every move. the activists knew full well that they were being filmed and were not afraid of showing that to the authorities they often played to the cameras surveilling them. such as in this case today as most of us again. these people try to get on with their lives as best they could. some red candy in the bible and enjoyed the 1st fresh breeze of spring and the spirit of revolution. the official polish media did not report on the protests instead they focused on the festive government organized may day parades that celebrated the glories of communism. the interior ministry commissioned propaganda films that vilified so-called anticommunist forces people who may consider the domestic enemies of the polish people's republic. one of the best known dissidents was diminished nick ok oh i remember and underground publisher. despite the government's efforts popular support for the opposition grew and it became a movement afoot change. the activists recruited young filmmakers to counter the government's propaganda and cinema soon became a venue for political protest. but of you we made a lot of documentaries but also feature films. such as an j. vidas man of marble we tried to tell the truth about the world we lived in. but it was the end that was an important message to society it expressed solidarity them. that much to mr millet our films was shown quite often we didn't realize that but we were promoting political unrest by travelling around the country with these films that's years instead. yes that means that scott. is that the guns lots of people came to see them and asked who would they would discuss the current political situation with them that that was of the disk of the woods and people started to open up just as a chance did i say. opposition activists suffering mess in churches where police surveillance was not sell out. this go. in principle the state respected the rights of the church to carry out its religious mission without direct interference to the city of what sort of course the party my party did everything it could to restrict that right we refused permission to build new charges for example that we always try to get in their way because we saw the catholic faith as an ideology that ran counter to marxism leninism religion at the. this ideological struggle spread beyond the borders of poland even as far as the vatican. white smoke appeared the next day at 6 17 pm local time. there was a thing the new pope is now on account of the 1st call 456 you cannot carry on what to you 1st pope from a communist country you name himself pope john paul a 2nd and blesses the crowd. a petroleum to keep the view of i had my 1st taste of freedom in 1979 when it was that i got an official invitation from the director of the bishop's conference press office to direct order a man who would lie. or become a bishop himself though. i was to be one of 7 cameramen to take part in a feature film about the pope's 1st pilgrimage to poland mortgage skidoos if you can go to see if you have sense if it is in the polls. this was extraordinary. because for the 1st time i didn't feel like i was being censored. we could focus on spirituality and what it meant for this country was not to go could argue that because of the pope's visit showed that 80 or 90 percent of the country was opposed to the political system during june tickets and i was pretty forgiving them a system of. this was a significant setback for the polish communist party. average people who had never before considered standing up to the government did so now they felt they were on a new mission committed to defending human dignity. although the pope never referred directly to the government all poles understood his message. to. their religious face gave them strength the strength of community. the city of god dance on the baltic coast on august the 14th 1980 several sounds and workers at the lenin shipyard broke the law by going on strike. the strike was called to support a colleague and a volunteer no of it should been fired 5 months before she was due to retire management had accused her of anticommunist activity. that. i didn't know it'd be new to. me when you made a matter yet. clearly to do sound like you said. that i am your new misra you. are right. about the family benefit that we're news of the strike at the shipyard spread rapidly across poland and indeed around the world. so. we decided to go to the dance to observe the strike. which older people said that the younger one should go. so i and a few other colleagues drive up now probably have. we arrived in good hands come to 2 days. of course we wanted to go to the shipyard. but we didn't know whether they would letters and push. it over to the valley the workers said that the state media had been spreading lies so they wouldn't let them in to some of the equipment they said you gentlemen and your sound recordist can come in. but you've got to tell the truth about this strike. even much cheaper each there just are. no other members of the media whether domestic or international player allowed inside the shipyards the only film of the strike was shot by the documentary crew. they had the complete confidence of the workers who spoke openly about their situation. the resulting footage would make headline news around the world. does she. gratis just a lot but on average having to. really provide any. he. knew that they were the children. and the only not on your. left when he strikes soon broke out in many factories throughout the country in support of the shipyard workers. the polish revolution now had a name solely done russia solidarity. it was definitely a new form of revolution and the workers had a sense of discipline. a lock themselves up in the shipyard so that they could create a safe assembly area to organize a nonviolent challenge to the government but they must topple. the workers results paid elf representatives of poland's communist party had no choice but to meet with the strikers. for the 1st time in the history of the eastern bloc the communist authorities were forced to listen to the demands of the working class. and no one had ever dared to speak to a top party official like this. you're famous if you've joined your national guard is a motion about increasing. the family life form the next year rather than average alinea mean it gets around in the study. so there's and that mean they shouldn't as mr liu action on the west coast i mean as an example. was accountable and if you don't gotta go then you've got american my own background it's a bit of a gun this got to keep on we're going to reset this and i mean our event our communities the problems and yet another doesn't. just get as many as we have looked to me has made me look yes yes i was leaving is it a big if it does talked about joe what it is about. the trashing of news that you got we did a budget or you don't. pan out i mean if that it's up to page. yes i use the transfer of the stars moved one was just must be a light in that room for your vision there was never a moment when one side won against the other country strong. that neither side sounds like a one trick. and it was no sight we would win the game roof it was really hard work to negotiate points i only thought this through to the workers made 21 political demands including freedom of association freedom of the press and the release of political prisoners they did not want to overthrow the communist party that they didn't want to make the party more compassionate. the workers continue to their peaceful protests throughout the long hot summer of 1900. 18 now had a leader a shipyard elektra named elected when his son he was a passionate activist who became the face of the opposition movement. an hour at the worker who questions the party monopoly is much more dangerous than an intellectual force of transfer and current events i knew that protests could lead to violence and bloodshed again he had a family. and people trusted him as much. as most on to violence and he had a gift for dealing with the masses and she knew he could motivate them and appeal to their emotions but he never crossed the line he always kept the masses under control and see bush with that the image the muscle and. the violence or had widespread support among the polish people and the catholic church the solidarity movement was also covered extensively by the western media in the united states in particular these reports were often into spare straights anti communist propaganda. over them you can see next to me one afternoon there were rumors that the security forces would attack the shipyard that night from the river you know sticks his ability never to move us as it would be an attempt to subdue the workers because his vote the injured this and to is that if you. don't come over i took my camera with me to bed that night they not susan because if anything happened i wanted to film it make me and make the push to the strike might be stopped at any time soon. our soviet big brother could simply say no more. requests no. but there was a dramatic turn of events on august the says the 1st 1900 the communist party responded to the workers' demands and gave up its monopoly on political power. rather well in. order. more. mob. solidarity the 1st independent trade union in communist europe was now illegal a development that was widely covered in the foreign press the strikers knew that with the world looking on the party would have to keep its word. probably new no. new mug in a long. time when say used a huge pen with the likeness of the pope on it to sign the treaty a symbol of a utopia that would now the come reality the workers in the dance could demand did the impossible and they got it. meant. solidarity had one official record. nation. its leaders traded their work clothes for business. they appeared alongside intellectuals like today ocean as of yet ski and bernice. without them the triumph would not have been possible. pearson ishant said in the months after august the atmosphere was one of host consortia commitment. moments ago when solidarity our 1st free and independent trade union was officially founded huge numbers of people joined it at the cessation because as soon there were 10000000 members it was absolutely incredible. the. 10000000 people was a complete disaster for those of us who were in power for young of luge 10000000 people join solidarity. if you think 3 or 4 people power family and the entire nation was against the beautician against the political system such of course and our political power of what we want well aware of that oh no sure don't worship communist party leaders were forced to regroup and reorganize in early 1981 they stepped up surveillance of workers the government tried to discredit solidarity's leaders in an attempt to stop the revolution from spreading to other east bloc countries. that's now it's a confrontation with the authorities who is increasingly likely. solidarity also had to deal with problems like funding organization and experience but the authorities were already interfering. in the government and we believed that things would change them but the situation didn't get. it got worse he. gave us because the trade union was a political movement it had no political or executive power. the polish government feared that the soviet union would put a stop to solidarity. the new leader was appointed army general wojciech jaruzelski. for example he did not cry you. showing. interest cry but actions look at are not in conflict if you try. to serve should not as. some i was someone in the middle of the night to a room where there were 30 generals years of the. euro zone scheme was there to. add to moyes that someone asked me whether i thought we could reach an agreement with some majority of those. in you know i was tired and upset and. if so i expressed an opinion that reflected what i truly believed that based on my recent experience physically in the spirit i said. no absolutely not there will be a confrontation just as the. the government decided to act on december 13th 1981 year result ski imposed martial law throughout poland the military was mobilized they cut off all telephone lines and enforced a curfew jaruzelski believed that this crackdown would silence the solidarity movement once and for all and would also prevent the soviet union from intervening . 'd poland's newfound freedom was literally overrun by the military. the army confiscated all private cameras only state media were allowed to film and report on what was called a pacification campaign. would be to not have to be corrected you just have a bit of notice in the doings of the solution because you're so good oh brother of the poster stand with. john hughes or you have a voice couples go through to not use this would have us be treated by me to be beneficially secretary but of the switch to such it was on the press was that of a young guy and others. sauza as of activists both men and women were arrested the solidarity trade union. the security forces resorted to their old methods against dissidents. many were ordered to admit to crimes they had not committed. it was a facer at the. she's live new believe. in your honor from not just for the mockery of a young. new book. it is a. few years for your engine couldn't. it be in your book. after. are. actually. very. nice nation to we were still under martial law because. i was detained. they will start is used a legal premise that was strange not just for poland but for any other countries. that could. they tell me to tuesday people of a specific crimes the. rest of them as a precaution so that they were removed from society out of one outsports. for soon as i got to be internment camp i knew that i had to document the experience. which i don't ask people to bring me a camera that had no idea when i get it and nothing was of lack of proof apart i wife then managed to smuggle a camera into the camp. and this is it a little olympus push it's compact and mostly automatic. approach of course at the beginning of august each of us got 4 kilos of sugar aesthetic you know it's. many people used to make i'll call the marketing ish. but not me i needed that sugar and so giving out the package was the perfect place to hide my cameras capture proof on your printer. there. the dissidents went underground in cities and in the countryside they set up hiding places in small apartments and cell as. the rebels had to learn any new way of life. many changed their identity and some used disco uses to elude the police. that's there for nikesh nobody. around for the last front in such fashion yet for russia it's their growth forecasts their scripts for. trade routes to be done. and the security forces were on constant alert but they could not prevent solidarity from receiving growing support from overseas. they found the book i went to france partly because i'm j vida was there to shoot downtown. but mostly because a large solidarity committee was being organized abroad. and i wanted to do something for my friends that hones some of them are in jail at the time she's the. founder. of this from europe everything sort of the russian. got a good camera from the solidarity committee in paris so we were able to document events in poland and film things that we thought were important but as a woman turned over who knows. these are kind of it was a cheap camera so it would be no great loss if it fell into the wrong hands because of that but the awful thing was that the video cassette had only 2 and a half minutes worth of tape that was over there cringed. she heard you don't know through just the underground dissidents invited us to film them here i never knew where. a when. it could happen at any time. someone would say get your camera ready he burned you go ahead. the secret police disrupted protests whenever they could. they confiscated materials that included leaflets and canisters of film these were later used as evidence to justify the harsh sentences imposed on solidarity activists. the conflict between the police and the activists paralyze the country neither side wanted to make concessions laughs yeah. yeah yeah if i have to have the last that i have. to have. that the catholic church was divided on the rebellion. a priest father hears he probably wish to go called on the faithful to defend the truth at all costs. but suppose the authority should give you information such as bush reserve runs over injured actions or. more year. of vision who've just nonsense. that came out of our battles of the get go and he was a. as an individual that if you said that you know that as a person and as a priest he conveyed a powerful in a strength in a very discreet subtle and gentle way like this kid and that's what they were got they are sick as of altered by the myths that are that of 6 years ago everyone who knew him was captivated by his fragility tenderness and shyness and by his personal integrity and determination consequence. in october 1904 father was kidnapped tortured and beaten to death. his body was found in a reservoir. man . happy wish because murder was a major story in the western media and he became a symbol of the pro-democracy movement. there were of social and i was shocked when i heard the news. if i said to myself. my god this will create terrible problems for us and from negotiations so there be a move to bulldoze them in. the lovely appeared so that was my 1st reaction honestly but for the duo. and as it turned out i was right. to have a copy which goes blood on. the church of god after of course it was organized by a senior official of the interior ministry is god who gave him the order. certainly not. chances the head of the secret police for the. death was a humiliation for us and it made our work more difficult just. to this day it's not been determined who ordered publish those murder but the crime brought even more people into the solidarity movement. was what. i made a 985 there was a huge demonstration to counter the official celebrations i the opposition was now stronger than ever. the it was. the it was. but then events in the soviet union signaled that major political changes were on the way. in march 1905 mikhail gorbachev was named communist party general secretary he instituted a wide ranging programme f restructuring and transparency the threat of soviet intervention in poland disappeared. in february 989 solidarity and communist party officials met at a villa near warsaw to discuss the agenda for a new series of round table talks. $58.00 people took part largely comprising representatives from the government and the opposition although in total including just 2 women. the discussions became a symbol for the creation of a new and stem a critic poland. east germany in autumn 1909 every monday evening residents of leyte sage gathered to demonstrate against the government the border between poland and east germany was closed at that time but the spirit of the solidarity movement was sweeping across eastern europe. the long road that led to the fall of the berlin wall began in the down sc huge crowds still gather at the formal lenin shipyard every year to reflect on the legacy of the solidarity movement. the european solidarity center in the downs is a museum and library dedicated to poland's civil resistance movement with a legacy for the present day to. talk of us all and if you go the question now is whether people will understand these images or will said those who control the past control the future i believe that whoever controls the place where we remember solidarity will control the next 30 years and cold and or. because india. on this california milk is not the main product. gets down to. the beach joey fontenoy does is the next level organic farm here local breeds are treated like stars as are the mounds they leave behind it's valuable material from new earth and souvenirs. of g.w. . good shape. it's a constant companion. and it makes us ill. headaches dizziness ensign itis as are some illnesses that can be caused by not. looking is that. and what can we do about it. good shooting. in 30 minutes on t w. didn't beethoven in villages to tick tick tick tick didn't want to do. it he pleaded. many romance of stolen beethoven. of course the subconscious always played the 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