13th of December 1981(Sunday) in Poland the communistic Council of State had announced "the state of war". Thousands of members of "Solidarnosc" ("Solidarity" Independent Self-governing Trade Union) had been internment. 9 of striking miners in the coal mine "Wujek" in Katowice had been shot and 21 wounded as the government tried to deal with the strike sending in ZOMO (Motorized Reserves of the Citizens' Militia).
The official reason was that if it was not for "the state of war" the Soviet army would have entered the country where de facto the Soviet army had resided in Poland since the end of WWII and had not left till 1991.
The actual point was to strengthen the power of the communistic government, break up "Solidarnosc" and destroy the new the nation of Polish spirit of freedom, independence and democracy.
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