POLAND 2011 SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PHILATELIC FOLDER: 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1981 FIRE SERVICES OFFCERS STRIKE IN WARSAW - SOLIDARNOSC SOLIDARITY TRADE UNION
ISSUED: 2 DECEMBER 2011
THIS FOLDER CONTAINS ONE MINIATURE SHEET AND ONE FDC WHICH HAVE FISCHER CATALOGUE NUMBER: Fi BLOK 234
THIS FOLDER IS WRITTEN IN THE POLISH LANGUAGE.
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CONSIDERING THE ENORMOUS WORLDWIDE DEMAND FOR THIS TYPE OF ITEM, THEY WILL SOON BECOME A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM.
THIS WONDERFUL SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION FOLDER, IN MINT NEVER HINGED CONDITION, IS A MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS POLAND, FIRE FIGHTING SERVICES, SOLIDARITY, SOLIDANOSC, MODERN HISTORY, ANTI-COMMUNISM, HELICOPTERS AND THEMATIC COLLECTORS AND WILL MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
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On the 2nd December 1981 police and army troops stormed a firefighter's academy by helicopter and ousted 300 striking cadets and briefly detained 34 Solidarity union officials in the government's biggest show of force since the Polish crisis erupted 18 months earlier.
Although there was no bloodshed, the blitzkrieg assault threatened to snowball into another major confrontation between the Communist government and Solidarity.
Union leaders in Warsaw threatened a retaliatory general strike and asked the union's 1 million-plus members in the capital region to maintain a 'strike alert' and be ready to walk off their jobs at any time.
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa ordered the strike alert but appealed for calm while the union leadership met at a Warsaw hotel.
'We can't let ourselves be carried away by emotions because someone wants this to take place. No one can draw us onto a field (of battle) which is not convenient for us,' Walesa told a cheering crowd outside the hotel.
The deputy chairman of Solidarity's Warsaw organization, Seweryn Jaworski, and 33 other union activists were taken into custody during the raid at the fire officers' academy and detained for questioning. The union was ready to stage a general strike on their behalf, but they were released after several hours.
