The Solidarity movement in Poland

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…uprisings, all of which failed, except for this one. No other movement connected the Polish intelligentsia and the Polish worker. Would Polish insurrections have worked earlier in history if this was also the case? One can always second guess, but it is clear the changes that occurred in Poland, occurred because of the intellectuals working with the workers. They had the vision, the workers had the mass to demand that vision to become a reality.