Pomnik Poleglych Stoczniowcow (Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers), Gdansk, Pomerania, Poland.
42 metre high memorial outside the entrance to the Gdansk shipyard. The yard is famous as the location where discontent under communist rule boiled over and where resistance was brutally stamped out by Soviet forces in 1970. The monument was unveiled in 1980, ten years after the massacre, and was the first in the communist regime to commemorate the regime's victims. Lech Walesa addressed the strikers in the yard which led to Solidarnosc (Solidarity) being formed and ultimately Polish democratic independence.
Size: 3690px × 4732px
Location: Gdansk, Pomerania, Poland.
Photo credit: © Leslie Garland / LGPL / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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