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By Andrew Higgins GDANSK, Poland — Solidarity ... image of the Soviet hammer and sickle imposed on a rainbow flag. For today’s Solidarity, snatching back the tablets from the governing ...
GDANSK, Poland — In an emotional visit celebrating Polish-American friendship, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Sunday honored the memory of this country’s anti-Communist strikers ...
Thousands participated in a Pride march in Gdansk, showing solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community following Karol Nawrocki's ...
Foreign leaders have paid tribute to Poland's Solidarity movement at events to mark the founding of the first free trade union in the former Soviet bloc. European Commission President Jose Manuel ...
As Poland gears up for the May 18 presidential election, a striking political shift is taking shape: The once-unifying cause of support for Ukrainians is turning into a wedge issue on the campaign ...
Now, for almost every Polish flag flying, there is one Ukrainian one. Paper flags, polyester flags, flags lit up in neon, large and small. Signs of solidarity. Symbols of support for neighbouring ...
"We look at it with emotion, we are proud of it," the President said of the Polish flag. "It was the white and red that became the colours of the Solidarity flag”, he noted. "It is under these ...
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their ...
1980 between Poland’s communist rulers and the then rising Solidarity, the first independent trade union in then-communist Eastern Europe. Duda said at the ceremonial meeting of Solidarity in ...
Jerzy PopiełuszkoPublic domain/Wikimedia Commons October 19 marks 38 years since Popiełuszko, a staunch supporter of Poland’s Solidarity freedom movement, was brutally murdered at the age of 37.