Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
Corinna Waldbauer
Stanisław Ciosek
Barbara Labuda
Agnieszka Holland
Jacek Petrycki
Michał Bukojemski
Basil Kerski
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Pope John Paul II
Anna Walentynowicz
Mieczysław Jagielski
Lech Wałęsa
Bronisław Geremek
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Zbigniew Lewicki
Jerzy Popiełuszko
Mikhail Gorbachev