

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Agnieszka Holland

Pope John Paul II

Lech Wałęsa

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Mikhail Gorbachev