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Hekate

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28. Nobody thought Lech Walesa's Solidarność (Solidarity) movement stood a chance in hell against the USSR...

Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:37 PM

Jun 2025

…the implacable 20th century giant of the Iron Curtain. Everybody thought Nelson Mandela would die in prison, and South African apartheid would go on forever.

Solidarity means something. Showing up. Speaking out. Risking.

Sometimes you lose, as in 1989 in Tienanmen Square, or 1968 in the Prague Spring. And sometimes, ultimately, you win.

Show up.

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