Cold War Conversations

48 - Gillian - A US Student visits Poland in 1989

Feb 09, 2019 Season 2 Episode 48

Ian Sanders & Gillian Cox

In this episode we welcome back Gillian Cox who told us about her student trip to East Germany in 1989. In this episode the story continues with her trip further East into Poland.

At this point Poland’s communist Polish United Workers Party had abandoned its monopoly of power in April. Elections in June 1989 resulted in the Free Trade Union Solidarity securing 35% of seats available to it with the remaining 65% was divided between the PZPR and its satellite parties

The first round of voting took place on the same day that the Chinese communist government unleashed the Tiananmen Square massacre.

We join my Cold War Conversation with Gillian Cox as she crosses the East German border into Poland.



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