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U.S. Congress Unanimously Approves Resolution Commemorating Solidarity’s 25th Anniversary

21 July 2005
U.S. Capitol


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The 109th U.S. Congress has unanimously passed Senate resolution 198 which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 1980 worker’s strike in Poland and the birth of the Solidarity Trade Union, the first free and independent trade union established in the Soviet-dominated countries of Europe. “Whereas for decades the people of Poland struggled heroically for freedom and democracy against that oppression…” For a full copy of the resolution: click here and enter Senate Resolution 198 into the search function

 


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