Step Back in Time And Tell Us How Well You Know The Key Events Of The 1980s

What country had free elections due to the Solidarity movement?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although the Communist Polish government at the time outlawed and tried to repress the Solidarity trade union that demanded political reform and democracy, the union received widespread international support from groups that included the CIA and the Roman Catholic Church. Not only did the trade union survive (and does so to this day) but Poland started seeing democratic elections in 1989.

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What country had free elections due to the Solidarity movement?

• Hungary
• Poland
• Ukraine
• Romania