Where have you been?

I defy any Reagan Conservative to tell me who or what Solidarność and Lech Wałęsa are. To my Polish (and in general European) audience this challenge might not make sense but, you see, Americans are taught that not only were American's the reason "we" won WWII but President Reagan was the reason Communism fell. I am sure Nobel Laureate and the first President of a free Poland Lech Wałęsa and his buddies in Solidarność might have something to say about that.


These pictures of Gdańsk Shipyards are where the beginning of the end started. If you click on the Wikipedia link you can see a fabulous photo of people protesting in 1980 just outside the shipyards exactly where I took the top photo.