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Solidarity leader Lech Walesa gives an interview for AFP in his office in Gdansk, 01 December 2006. Poland marks 13 December 2006 the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown which tried but ultimately failed to break Solidarity, the first free trade union in the communist bloc. On Sunday December 13, 1981, around 16 months after the union was born in a a massive strike at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, then prime minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law. Thousands of Solidarity members were thrown into prison, including charismatic leader Lech Walesa, then a shipyard electrician. AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI
POLAND-HISTORY-SOLIDARITY-COUP
TO GO WITH AFP STORY "Poland-history-Solidarity-coup"
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa gives an interview for AFP in his office in Gdansk, 01 December 2006. Poland marks 13 December 2006 the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown which tried but ultimately failed to break Solidarity, the first free trade union in the communist bloc. On Sunday December 13, 1981, around 16 months after the union was born in a a massive strike at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, then prime minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law. Thousands of Solidarity members were thrown into prison, including charismatic leader Lech Walesa, then a shipyard electrician. AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI