From Solidarity To Super Yachts: Gdansk's Historic Shipyards Try To Stay Afloat -- CNN
(CNN) -- During the 1970s and '80s it was said that what happened in Gdansk moved the world.
The shipyard in the Polish port city employed around 20,000 workers building container ships and vessels for the navies of many East European communist countries.
It was also the birthplace of the anti-communist Solidarity trade union movement started by shipyard electrician Lech Walesa, and the spark that would help lead to further civil resistance against communism across Eastern Europe.
Now 30 years on, the shipyards are a very different place.
Read more ....
My Comment: Gdansk shipyards are doing what it takes to survive .... I wish them the best.
No comments:
Post a Comment