2024

MONUMENT TO SHIPYARD WORKERS

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Located at the entrance to the Gdańsk construction sites, in Solidarność Square, three 40-meter-high stainless steel crosses stand in memory of the workers who fell at this location, under militia bullets, during the 1970 riots. For the next 10 years, to secretly pay tribute to their companions, the workers placed stones that the authorities immediately removed. Under pressure from the unions, in 1980, the Communist Party agreed to its construction.

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