Strajk w Stoczni Gdańskiej '80

The film series "Solidarity – The Birth of Freedom" is a series of educational films taking us on a journey to the 1980s, when public dissatisfaction with various decisions made by the communists ruling the country led to the formation of a de facto political and social opposition. In this series of films, prepared by the Institute of National Remembrance's Historical Research Office in cooperation with the IPN's Central History Point named after President Lech Kaczyński, researchers from the Institute of National Remembrance present the events that took place in the Polish People's Republic in 1980-1981. The third episode will present the history of the most important strike that took place in Poland in the summer of 1980: the workers' protest at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk. "Solidarity – the Birth of Freedom" is, above all, the story of the resistance that Poles put up against the communists in the early 1980s. Thanks to them, the largest opposition movement in Central and Eastern Europe was born – the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity", which was one of the elements of a great historical change in this part of the world.