The Revolution of Poland

After the Second World War, Poland came under the control of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Army in 1944 liberated Poland from the control of Nazi-Germany. As a result, by 1948 Communism had than taken over control of the Polish government, the economy, and its social institutions. Joseph Stalin (the Soviet leader,) had become quite suspicious of the Polish citizens. He felt that it had become too difficult to replace their system with his system. He was right—Polish civilians did not want to be under the system of the Soviet Union, and so they fought back and began a revolution. Many different types of groups came together to fight the Soviets; in 1968 the intellectuals banded together and revolted, then later civilians armed themselves and begun to resist the choking grasp of the Soviet Union. Massive strikes as well as uprisings formed. They fought for the justice of their country—their ultimate goal being solidarity. Thus, the solidarity movement was formed. The specific aim of this movement was to bring individuals of all political views, religious views, and different nationalities together under one nationalistic banner. The Polish civilians used various types of resistance tactics to take down the stronghold of Communist Russia. Kuron, Fydrych, and the woman who wrote the WiP paper, “The Hardest Thing to overcome was our own Foolishness” were able to reveal and influence how the citizens of Poland were willing to do whatever they could in their power to resist the Soviet Union system from taking control of Poland.

In June of 1987, the Orange Alternative, a guerilla collective that was formed in 1987 in the western city of Wroclaw, formed the “Revolution of the Elves,” which was an example of the human factor that caused...

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...(Kuron). Kuron’s motive was to engage the civilians of Poland to engage more into the politics and communication with the Soviet Union. That if they civilians of Poland continue to just continue to do demonstrations and protests for themselves, they were not going to get anywhere. As said before, they had to be willing to communicate and cooperate with the Soviet Union, and fight and strive from the inside out.

Poland was not a passive country, and was not going let the Soviet Union take away justice from Poland. These authors were able to reveal on the Polish civilians were able to fight and resist from the inside out and the outside in. But, the most significant thing that authors were able to shed light on was how Poland was able to band together as one country no matter how different they were from each other individually, and start up an impactful revolution.