
Comment: I have seen this happen, already. In early 1980s, I had an honour and a privilage to represent “the people” against “the government” in a communist Poland. I was a member of the National Committe of “Solidarity (one of 108) and was elected a chairman of one of its 48 regions [1] , [2] , [3] ,[4] , [5] . In one year, 10 million out of 14 million empoloyees in the public sector became members of “Solidarity”. At the same time, only 2 million Poles were members of the communist party (PZPR). Given these stats, the governing political party could not win with us politically, so they resorted to the establishent of martial law that outlawed the first “Solidarity” and lasted about two years.
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