POLAND: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - Uefa President Michel Platini visits the headquarters of Solidarity), the workers' movement which helped bring down communism in Poland

Record ID: 862426

  • Title: POLAND: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - Uefa President Michel Platini visits the headquarters of Solidarity), the workers' movement which helped bring down communism in Poland
  • Date: 23rd June 2012
  • Summary: GDANSK, POLAND (JUNE 22, 2012) (REUTERS) ( * BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) SOLIDARITY HEADQUARTERS IN GDANSK UEFA PRESIDENT MICHEL PLATINI ARRIVING AT HEADQUARTERS PLATINI WITH SOLIDARITY MEMBERS AND SHIPYARD WORKERS VARIOUS OF PLATINI WALKING WITH SOLIDARITY REPRESENTATIVES PHOTO OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF SOLIDARITY MONUMENT PAN FROM PALTINI ONTO MONUMENT PLATINI AND REPRESENTATIVES WALKING AT SHIPYARD VARIOUS OF PLATINI SIGNING SOLIDARITY BOOK AND GETTING PRESENT
  • Embargoed: 8th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Poland
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  • Country: Poland
  • Topics: Sports
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  • Story Text: Uefa President Michel Platini visited the headquarters of Solidarity on Friday (June 22), the workers' movement which helped bring down communism in Poland.
    Platini took a tour of the dockyards in the port city of Gdansk ahead of the Euro2012 quarter final between Germany and Greece.
    Solidarity - or Solidarnosc in Polish - was instrumental in ushering in democracy to Poland after nearly 50 years behind the Iron Curtain.
    The trade union emerged in the early 1980s after a strike at the Gdansk shipyard, and was led by Lech Walesa, Polish president between 1990 and 1995.
    Platini met a number of Solidarity members and representatives, before signing a visitors book and accepting a statuette.
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