BubbaWoo 33 | 3,506 3 Mar 2007 / #1Back in the mid 9Os I lived opposite the monument of the shipyard workers killed on Solidarity Sqaure...At the base of the monument there is an inscription with the words of Jan Pawel II ... "May the Holy Ghost descend from Heaven and change this land"... In so many ways the Pope's prayers have been answered but some of 3miasto friends see a shadow being cast over their land as people come to terms with Poland's new moral philosophy... where the pursuit of money and career overwhelms the sense of social justice...Two DecembersDo you remember the healmetsGrey quilted jackets, faces made of steelBroken hearts, souls bespattered with spitAnd scoundrels who fired at usDo you remember the wings of hopeThat brought us into the time of awakeningAnd human hands that held a stoneAimed at the prison guardsDo you remember the smokeand the tumultOr the people throwing themselves withfury and terrorLake a wave flowing into the songof the generationsThat live though cannot liveDo you remember the moments of despairBodies falling down like hewn treesMetal that filled the air with coldnessAnd the mouth of sand, not breadDo you remember the wretched liesVile pathos, paper facesAnd their babble disguised as repentanceWhich is mistaken but wants you to trustSo here we come againThe bones of the innocent shine afarMeanness has no face but a maskAnd feeds the people with false hopeAnd thought history goes forwardTurning conceit and violence into ashesOur clock's hand has stopped on the faceA tank's armour hides its impotanceDecember 16 1981Antoni Kozlowski
anielka 2 | 84 8 Mar 2007 / #3Yes, the words catch one in the throat.And yes there is another side to the coin to be considered: husband conscripted and served during Martial Law, so thanks to the Army,General Jaruzelski, the Polish Govt. and Martial Law- with Russian tanks standing on the Polish border ready to roll- thus avoiding another Communist bloodbath, remember Hungary?Younger Poles do remember: their father obtaining names to start a Union amongst Firefighters, then taken in the middle of the night, their mother searching the jails, families never knowing if/when Tata is coming back, where he is, is he alive, hurt, they just don't talk about it.
james - | 8 28 Mar 2007 / #4love and hugs to you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxmy people must have felt that way when they were awakened from there beds....stil no jails in that time..only the gods they were about to meet
hello 22 | 890 12 Mar 2008 / #5Very interesting video on Solidarność (Solidarity TV "patent" - text that appeared on TV during broadcast):
Papiez 1 | 23 11 Oct 2009 / #6Oct 12, 09, 19:07 - Thread attached on merging:SOLIDALNOSC...Is anyone in here knows a vivid and detailed history of solidalnosc i mean the role played by Walesa and co,the catholic church with the help of the West to eliminate the communist Poland?
SeanBM 35 | 5,806 11 Oct 2009 / #7You may find this Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 of interest.I do.
osiol 55 | 3,921 11 Oct 2009 / #9vivid and detailedI have a vivid and detailed knowledge of the spelling: Solidarność. Does that help?
Papiez 1 | 23 11 Oct 2009 / #10hahaha.. dobrze mowię po polsku!!i know some polish and i know how to spell the word but most time im using it i dont bother myself to put those ą ę ż ść itdDziękuje though!
HWPiel 1 | 64 19 Oct 2009 / #11Papiez,Try reading The Polish Revolution: Solidarity by Timothy Garton Ash, published by Yale Publishing in 1983; it is a very good book, and he was there during the whole events of 1980 - 1982 and he provides a nice history as well unfolding of events.Also try, From Solidarity to Martial Law: The Polish Crisis of 1980 - 1981 aa documentary history edited by Andrezej Pacskowski and Malcolm Byrne, published by CEU Press in 2007; also a very good analytical text.Good luck,Henry.
