You don’t usually think of long, soft, sandy beaches when you think of Poland, right? Yet here we are on the shoreline of the Westerplatte, a peninsula of land just outside the city of Gdansk, the country’s northernmost port, and if it was just a little bit brighter, I swear we could have been somewhere in the Mediterranean.
Solidarity was created in August 1980, the first independent trade union to be recognised by a state behind the Iron Curtain. Solidarity’s victory precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall and widespread political and economic change across the Soviet-controlled East bloc. Solidarity was creat.