A resolution commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1980 worker's strike in Poland and the birth of the Solidarity Trade Union, the first free and independent trade union established in the Soviet-dominated countries of Europe.
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S9201)
Congressional Research Service
Official summary
Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jul 18, 2005
Declares August 31, 2005, to be Solidarity Day in the United States to recognize the 25th anniversary of the establishment in Poland of the Solidarity Trade Union.
Honors the people of Poland who risked their lives to restore liberty in Poland and to return Poland to the democratic community of nations.
Calls on the people of the United States to remember the struggle and sacrifice of the people of Poland and that the results of that struggle contributed to the fall of communism and the ultimate end of the Cold War.
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