Moskau und Solidarność / Ungarn und Solidarność
Moscow and Solidarność / Hungary and Solidarność

Summary/Abstract: If the events of 1956 in Hungary in the neighboring countries of the socialist camp - apart from the interaction with Poland - remained without any echo, and if the suppression of the "Prague Spring" with the protest movement of student groups in Poland, the Moscow demonstration of 21 August in 1968, and in response to the inner-party protests of some sociologists in Hungary – if all these events caused only weak reaction, the sixteen-month existence of a Polish labor movement could no longer pass without trace on the other Eastern European countries, chiefly because the opposition had succeeded in some countries and intensified to organize. Even if the ruling regimes managed to transform Poland's catastrophic economic situation into a propaganda - certainly not superfluous on the surface - against the organization of 10 million working Poles, or to build on the fear and resignation of its own people after the military coup Nevertheless, regime critics from several countries have spoken up and clearly taken sides.

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