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Remembering KOR, Poland’s historic opposition group

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Roberto Galea 23.09.2016 15:57
  • Remembering KOR, Poland’s historic opposition group
Events have begun in Poland marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Workers Defence Committee (KOR), the country’s first major Communist-era opposition group.
Photo: PAP/Paweł SupernakPhoto: PAP/Paweł Supernak

KOR was one of the most influential ones in the former Soviet bloc.

As Michał Owczarek reports, KOR was a precursor and inspiration for efforts of the Solidarity trade union a few years later.

“We had bad experience of the 1968 and 1970 riots, we were young but conscious and we wanted to be active, so we got involved when the 1976 strikes ensued,” said KOR founder Piotr Naimski.

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