YEAR OF ISSUE: 1984 ISSUED BY: NIEZALEZNA POCZTA POMORZA (INDEPENDENT POST POMERANIA) CATALOGUE NUMBER: TPP 1982-4/188(406), SOLIDAM317/AJ573 ISSUED IN ORANGE ON CREAMY WHITE PAPER WITH NO GUM Andrzej Gwiazda (born on 14 April 1935) in Gdansk - engineer and prominent opposition leader, particularly in the Solidarity movement which led to the fall of communism in Poland. He 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 Gdansk in August 1980, Vice President of the Founding Committee of Solidarnosc, then Vice President of Solidarnosc in 1980 and 1981; in December 1981 he was interned and then imprisoned with six other Solidarnosc leaders. In 1989 he protested against the round table agreement (also known as the round table talks) which in Warsaw, Poland from February 6 to April 4, 1989. The government initiated the discussion with the banned trade union Solidarnosc and other opposition groups in an attempt to defuse growing social unrest.. THIS PROPAGANDA STAMP WAS ISSUED BY THE POLISH UNDERGROUND SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AS A DIVERSIFICATION STATEMENT AGAINST MARTIAL LAW WHICH HAD BEEN DECLARED BY THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES IN POLAND. IT IS A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM . THE UNDERGROUND MEMBERS WHO ISSUED THIS STAMP RISKED A LOT, BECAUSE IF CAUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A UNIQUE PIECE OF HISTORY. IT IS A MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS HISTORIAN AND COLLECTOR OF THIS PERIOD AND WILL MAKE AN INTERESTING ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION. General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced the introduction of martial law in a speech first broadcast on radio and television at 6:00 am on December 13, 1981. In order to isolate members of the opposition (from the Solidarity movement), 52 internment centers were created. A total of 10,132 internment orders were issued against 9,736 people during the period of martial law.
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