Although Poles suffer official censorship, a pervasive secret police and laws
similar to those in the USSR, there are thousands of underground publications,
a legal independent Church, private agriculture, and the East bloc's first and
only independent trade union federation, NSZZ Solidarnosc, which is an
affiliate of both the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the
World Confederation of Labor. There is literally a world of difference
between Poland - even in its present state of collapse - and Soviet society at
the peak of its glasnost. This difference has been maintained at great cost
by the Poles since 1944.
-- David Phillips, SUNY at Buffalo, about establishing a gateway from EARN
-- (European Academic Research Network) to Poland
similar to those in the USSR, there are thousands of underground publications,
a legal independent Church, private agriculture, and the East bloc's first and
only independent trade union federation, NSZZ Solidarnosc, which is an
affiliate of both the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the
World Confederation of Labor. There is literally a world of difference
between Poland - even in its present state of collapse - and Soviet society at
the peak of its glasnost. This difference has been maintained at great cost
by the Poles since 1944.
-- David Phillips, SUNY at Buffalo, about establishing a gateway from EARN
-- (European Academic Research Network) to Poland
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