Poles tussle over an icon of their past, with an eye on the future
The original plywood boards with 21 demands put forward in 1980 by striking shipyard workers, now displayed at a museum in the European Solidarity Center in Gdansk, Poland, on July 1, 2021. A tug of war over the legacy of the Solidarity movement has much to do with the battle over which direction the country should go today. Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times.
by Andrew Higgins
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Solidarity, the independent Polish trade union that four decades ago started an avalanche of dissent that swept away communism, has more modest ambitions these days. For a start, it wants its plywood boards back.