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Poland
Index
The deadlock was broken chiefly by events elsewhere in
the
Soviet alliance. The birth of Solidarity proved to be a
precursor
of forces of change across all of Eastern Europe and the
Soviet
Union. Once again Poland was in the midst of cataclysmic
European
events, but in this case Poland had a decisive influence
on
events in neighboring countries. Beginning with the
liberalization programs of Mikhail S. Gorbachev in the
Soviet
Union and continuing with the unforeseen and sudden demise
of
Poland's communist regime, decades of tension had been
released
throughout the region by the end of 1989.
Data as of October 1992
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