GDANSK, POLAND - JUNE 10, 2009: Monument to the fallen shipyard workers of Gdansk, also called pomnik poleglych stoczniowcow 1970, dedicated to worker
GDANSK, POLAND - JUNE 10, 2009: Monument to the fallen shipyard workers of Gdansk, also called pomnik poleglych stoczniowcow 1970, dedicated to workers who fought against communism. Picture of the Monument to the fallen shipyard workers of Gdansk, in Poland. The Monument to the fallen Shipyard Workers 1970 was unveiled on 16 December 1980 near the entrance to what was then the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. It commemorates the 42 or more people killed during the Coastal cities events in December 1970. It was created in the aftermath of the Gdańsk Agreement and is the first monument to the victims of communist oppression to be erected in a communist country.
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Photo credit: © Jerome Cid / Alamy / Afripics
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