Poland's deep divide | New Europe

On December 13, 1981, martial law was imposed in Poland and the first independent trade union in Communist Eastern Europe, Solidarity (Solidarnosc), with over 10 million members, was forcibly dissolved by the Polish military. Dozens of people were killed or injured in the violent crackdown, tens of

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