movement playing a central role in that movement was led of course by lead when so but in today s poland a starkly divided country many are dismissive of the heroes of yesteryear. this old barrack in the dance was originally a torpedo warehouse located some 500 kilometers from berlin this is what he iron curtain began to crumble back then this was still called the lenin shipyard today it s still used for welding hovering shortening or lengthening ships the smell of rust and iron heinz in the sea air here we find the european solidarity center the heart of liberal poland. we meet the hero of the solid movement less phones still a non-conformist even the surety is wearing seems to be an open challenge directed at poland s current government it reads constitution in quotation marks the nobel peace prize winner and former polish president but then co-founder and leader of
a place that made world history here in the summer of 1980 after an 18 day long strike is where solidarity was born i m. stuck. solidarity poland s 1st independent trade union began here at what was then called lenin shipyard a busy operation even today solidarity still has its european headquarters right in the middle of the yard. this is where we meet let s see who is as big nations has ever even the former shipyard workers t.-shirt is a statement aimed at the current polish government constitution it says. led solidarity went on to win the nobel peace prize and became the 1st democratically elected president of poland. to treasure you know i grew up without a father. who would have taken care of me. and i would probably have become
communism. represented it s not easy to escape that spiral. for probably a communist era ended peacefully in poland but only through negotiation between the opposition and the government was the regard you want is there stone says he knows it was. poland was the first country in the soviet bloc to make a peaceful transition to democracy. it all began here in one thousand nine hundred eighty at the entrance to the lenin shipyard in get done. this was the political process that led to the fall of the berlin wall nine years later. in august one nine hundred eighty labor activists left the inside how to organize a strike at the shipyard and later took part in talks with the government that led to the creation of an independent trade union the first in the soviet bloc. but kaczynski is political party now plays down but when says roll he s dismissed
communism. yet this and it s not easy to escape that spiral the birth of a communist era ended peacefully in poland but only through negotiation between the opposition and the government was the regard you want is a stone says elizabeth. poland was the first country in the soviet bloc to make a peaceful transition to democracy. it all began here in one thousand nine hundred eighty at the entrance to the lenin shipyard in the danske. this was the political process that led to the fall of the berlin wall nine years later. in august one nine hundred eighty labor activist left the inside how to organize a strike at the shipyard and later took part in talks with the governments that led to the creation of an independent trade union the first in the soviet bloc. but kaczynski is a political party now plays down but when says roll he s dismissed as