First days of martial law in Nowa Huta
First days of martial law in Nowa Huta

Summary/Abstract: The theme of my work is related to the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland on the 13th December 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. It concerns one of the largest sites of resistance in the country – Nowa Huta. I have presented what the arrest of the opposition activist in Nowa Huta looked like on the night of 12/13 December 1981 and I have presented the course of strike and its repression in the largest workplace in Cracow – in the Vladimir Lenin Steelworks in Nowa Huta.

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