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Fighting Solidarity Poster
Fighting Solidarity Poster
Illegal "postage stamps" of Fighting Solidarity. These were not used for postage, but rather were sold to raise funds for the organization.
Illegal "postage stamps" of Fighting Solidarity. These were not used for postage, but rather were sold to raise funds for the organization.
Kornel Morawiecki
Kornel Morawiecki

Fighting Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność Walcząca) was a Polish anti-communist underground organization, founded in 1982 by Kornel Morawiecki in Wrocław in response to the delegalization of Solidarity and government repression of the opposition after martial law was declared in 1981. Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Anti-communism refers to opposition to Communism. Historically the word "communism" has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups dedicated to fighting an Invader in an occupied country or the government of a sovereign nation Wrocław (Breslau Vratislav Vratislavia or Wratislavia Yiddish: ברעסלוי) is the chief City of the historical region of Lower Silesia Martial law in Poland (Stan wojenny w Polsce refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983 Created in June 1982[1], it was one of the most radical splinters of Solidarity[2].

Morawiecki and Fighting Solidarity activists saw their organization as the successor to the Polish resistance in World War II[1][3], hence their symbol merged the Solidarity logo with the Kotwica and crowned Polish eagle (in 1945, the new communist regime removed the crown from the eagle's head on the Polish coat of arms; many among the opposition saw the crown as a symbol of independent, non-communist Poland). The Polish resistance movement was a Resistance movement in Poland which fought against the Occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany during World The Solidarity logo designed by Jerzy Janiszewski in 1980 is considered as an important example of Polish Poster School creations The Kotwica ( Polish for " Anchor " was a World War II emblem of the Polish Secret State and Armia Krajowa The White Eagle (Orzeł Biały is the national Coat of arms of Poland.

One of the main activities of Fighting Solidarity was information warfare: it printed and distributed many underground newspapers (bibuła). Information warfare is the use and management of information in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent Polish underground press ( sl bibuła lit flimsy blotter blotting paper or drugi obieg lit The most well-known of these included "Biuletyn Dolnośląski" (Wrocław), "Solidarność Walcząca" (Poznań) and "Galicja" (Rzeszów). Poznań Lublin Voivodeship This article is about the city in Poland Rzeszów (Ряшiв Reichshof Resovia ריישע- Reisha) is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 170722 (2008 granted a town charter in 1354 Fighting Solidarity's bibuła were the first printed during the period of martial law, being available the day after martial law was introduced [4]. Fighting Solidarity also tried to actively infiltrate the Polish secret police (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) and to support other anti-communist organizations, including ones in other countries of the Soviet Bloc, even the Soviet Union itself[5]. Secret police (sometimes political police) are a Police agency which operates in Secrecy to maintain National security against internal Służba Bezpieczeństwa Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych ( pronounced bɛspʲetʂɛɲstfa miɲistɛrstfa spraf vevnɛ̃tʂnɨx ( Security Service of the Ministry During the Cold War, the term Communist Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Polish secret police found it extremely hard to infiltrate the organization, even though they employed various tactics, including kidnapping Morawiecki's children in an attempt to blackmail him[4]. In Criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or Asportation of a person against the person's will usually to hold the person in False imprisonment Blackmail is the crime of threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public a family member or associates unless a demand made upon the Despite its reputation for militance, Fighting Solidarity did not support social violence or terrorism[5]. Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

Fighting Solidarity was the only Polish organization of that time whose primary goals, declared from the start, included the destruction of communism, the independence of Poland and other nations controlled by communist governments (including those comprising the Soviet Union itself), and the reunification of Germany.

Fighting Solidarity powerbases included Poznań, Gdańsk, Rzeszów and Upper Silesia. Upper Silesia (Horní Slezsko Oberschlesien Latin: Silesia Superior; Górny Śląsk Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk) is the southeastern part Among its most prominent members were Maciej Frankiewicz (Poznań), Roman Zwiercan (Gdynia), Jadwiga Chmielowska (Sosnowiec), Janusz Szkutnik (Rzeszów) and Andrzej Kołodziej. Gdynia (Gdingen (until 1939 Gotenhafen (1939-1945 Gdiniô is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important Seaport Sosnowiec is a city located in the south of Poland. A county capital neighbouring Katowice, and a mining and industrial region it was one of the largest cities In 1986 it claimed to have several hundred active members, not counting allies and supporters[5].

In 1990 many members of Fighting Solidarity founded a political party, the Partia Wolności. A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral

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References

  1. ^ a b KENNEY, Padraic. A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, p 30.
  2. ^ Andrzej Paczkowski, Jane Cave. The Spring Will Be Ours: Poland and the Poles from Occupation to Freedom, p 464.
  3. ^ KENNEY, Padraic. A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, p 164.
  4. ^ a b (Polish) Solidarność Walcząca, czyli po niepodległość bez kompromisów Magazyn Obywatel nr 5 / 2005 (25)
  5. ^ a b c Sabrina Petra Ramet. Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation, p 97.

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