Today marks the 66th anniversary of the first workers strike at the city of Poznań in communist ruled Poland, on 1956. Protests were brutally suppressed, leaving up to 50 dead and 200 injured. (Poznań June/Poznański Czerwiec)
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the first workers strike at the city of Poznań in communist ruled Poland, on 1956. Protests were brutally suppressed, leaving up to 50 dead and 200 injured. (Poznań June/Poznański Czerwiec)
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I have not heard of it until yesterday, living a bus ride away from the city. I hope our history curriculum got somewhat better since my days in school…
It took 11 years for the party of the working class to start killing working class people. It was also 11 years after Orwell wrote “Animal farm” which pretty much predicted that.
AcHtUalLY the first workers’ strikes took place in 1944, and the first ones with a strong ideological motive happened in 1946. I’m mentioning it because no one heard about the pre-1956 strikes and these people deserve recognition too.
When the workers unions want to overthrow the USSR, that shows a lot about how good the USSR is for workers
[Kazik – Ballada o Janku Wisniewskim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw9VRnfl9no)