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- 10 February - End of a nearly two-week general strike in Jelenia Góra and fulfilment of the strikers’ demand: conveyance for social purposes of luxury holiday centres, until now in the possession of local authorities.
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- 11 February - General Wojciech Jaruzelski nominated to Prime Minister, appeals for 90 peaceful days.
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- 19 February - Registration of the Independent Students’ Union.
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- 26 February - A list of prisons to be used during martial law is drawn up.
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Karol Modzelewski:
This was the mechanism: […] These are the new voivodships formed from poviats where people continue to live in poviat muck, harassed by cliques that have already became voivodship cliques, with better connections. Underinvested regions, with awful hospitals where women gave birth between the loo and the staircase , where people earned less while being more intimidated by local cliques and where the residents saw luxury villas being built before their very eyes in tune with the principle „you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” […].Once those people could build an organisation of their own, it became their instrument of action. A powerful instrument. And they knew it. And - at that time - their first and unrestrained desire was confined to taking revenge on local chiefs. That was a movement of social revenge, hardly practiced in big industrial centres, sometimes occurring on a factory scale […].
That was an attack on material privileges of the nomenclature. […] The invariable goal was to take over - for social purposes - facilities such as party sanatoriums, the ministry of internal affairs or the building of the voivodship [police] HQ.
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 „Solidarity” rally (photo: Karta).
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 Bread as the symbol of rural „Solidarity”. It was hoped that establishment of a trade union of individual farmers would help solve the problem of lamentable food supply.
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