Andrzej Gwiazda
Andrzej Gwiazda (born 14 April 1935 in
Pińczów) is an engineer and prominent opposition leader, who participated in Polish
March 1968 Events and
December 1970 Events; one of the founders of
Free Trade Unions, Member of the Presiding Committee of the Strike at
Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980, Vice President of the Founding Committee of
Solidarity, then Vice President of Solidarity in 1980 and 1981; in December 1981 interned and next imprisoned with six other Solidarność leaders (see
Martial Law in Poland). His wife, Joanna Duda-Gwiazda (they married in 1961) also was a prominent member of the anticommunist opposition in the 1970s and 1980s.
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