Kozakiewicz Helped End Communism

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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9318

Polish Patriots Changed History 25 Years Ago
Miracle of Solidarity Ended Communism

by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Posted Sep 27, 2005

A miracle happened 25 years ago. Solidarity was born.

More precisely, the first-ever independent trade union, Solidarity, in the Soviet Bloc arose from a chain of miracles. Human solidarity translated itself into an institution dubbed Solidarity.

For some, the miracle started in July 1980 in Lublin, Poland, where the first strike broke out during that eventful summer. It was even rumored the strikers welded a train full of scarce goods to its tracks to prevent it from traveling to the Soviet Union.

Others point to the Olympic pole vault champion Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz. In early August, despite the massively derisive booing by the Soviet spectators, he took the gold in Moscow, and, to boot, flipped off “the Ruskies,â€Â

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Here is the link to the Sports Illustrated article and photos of Kozakiewicz at the 1980 Olympics

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Here is the link to the Sports Illustrated article and photos of Kozakiewicz at the 1980 Olympics

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