36 years ago today, in the first modern elections in Poland, Lech Walesa’s Solidarity Party of trade unionists won 160 out of 161 seats in the government, triggering the Revolutions of 1989, and quite simply, the fall of Communism, freeing Eastern Europe to pursue self-government and market capitalism. READ a bit about this momentous occasion… (1989)

It started with two massive waves of worker/student protests, starting in September 1988, that shook the communist regime in Poland to its very foundations. An agreement was reached by the communist Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) and the Solidarity movement on 4 April 1989, ending communist rule in Poland.

Two elections were to be held in June. The first was for every seat available in the newly-recreated Senate, and the second was fo

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