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Solidarity, March 27

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On March 27, 1981, Poland’s Solidarity movement staged a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours. This began the decade-​long process of overcoming Soviet communist rule in the satellite countries, leading eventually to the fall of the USSR as well.

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