A memoir of Polish Solidarity thirty years ago
Thirty years ago, I had the great good luck to witness the signing of the Gdansk Agreement that tolled the first death knells for Communism in Europe. Here it is authoritatively recalled by the doyen of commentators on the subject, Neal Ascherson. Standing in front of the gates of the Lenin shipyard in the port of Gdansk a few weeks previously, I was rash enough to make that very prediction on camera. The editors back home cut it out – …