Celebration of the 50th anniversary of December 1970
17.12.2020
This year marks 50th anniversary of the events which took place in December 1970 in Poland
The Poles objected to the increases in goods announced by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, Władysław Gomułka. On 14 December 1970, strikes and demonstrations initiated by workers from the Gdańsk Shipyard began. Already a day later a general strike was announced. The demonstrations were violently suppressed by the then communist authorities.
17 December was the bloodiest day of the pacification of the workers' protest. In the morning, shots were fired at the workers headed from the station to the blocked shipyard. Riots lasted until the evening. During these riots, the army and the police brutally detained more and more demonstrators. On that day, young Zbyszek Godlewski, who became a symbol of December 1970, was murdered.
/source KPRM
