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Poland
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Figure 11. Postwar Territorial Adjustments, 1945
Soviet success in liberating Poland began an entirely
new
stage in Polish national existence. With the reluctant
blessing
of the Allies, the communist-dominated government was
installed
in 1945. During the next seven years, Poland became a
socialist
state modeled on the Soviet Union. Although Poland
remained
within this political structure through the 1980s, open
social
unrest occurred at intervals throughout the communist
period.
Protests in 1980 spawned the Solidarity (Solidarnosc)
labor
movement, which forced fundamental compromise in the
socialist
system.
Data as of October 1992
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