history of Solidarity

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		The history of Solidarity, a Polish non-governmental trade union, began in August 1980 at the Gdansk Shipyards where Lech Walesa and others formed Solidarity
		In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country
		Solidarity gave rise to a broad anti-communist nonviolent social movement that, at its height, united some 10 million members and vastly contributed to the fall of communism

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