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Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the signing of the historic Gdańsk Agreement, which ended the August ’80 strikes and created the first independent trade union in the communist Eastern bloc. The „Solidarity” movement and trade union later paved the way for the eventual collapse of communist regimes throughout Europe. President Andrzej Duda paid tribute […]