Apr 12
Anna Walentynowicz Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 19:45 · 95 words · print
Anna Walentynowicz, a union activist whose 1980 dismissal from a Gdansk shipyard touched off strikes that led to the founding of the Solidarity movement and the eventual toppling of Polish communism, died in the plane crash that devastated the country's elite. She was 80.
Walentynowicz was an anti-communist dissident who worked with Solidarity founder Lech Walesa in the early 1980s to agitate against repressive communist rule. She was close to President Lech Kaczynski, also killed in the Saturday crash. Many others aboard the plane were also their ideological brethren.
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