Fortune of the day:
Although Poles suffer official censorship, a pervasive secret police and laws similar to those in the USSR, there are thousands of underground publications, a legal independent Church, private agriculture, and the East bloc's first and only independent trade union federation, NSZZ Solidarnosc, which is an affiliate of both the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labor. There is literally a world of difference between Poland - even in its present state of collapse - and Soviet society at the peak of itsglasnost.This difference has been maintained at great cost by the Poles since 1944. – David Phillips, SUNY at Buffalo, about establishing a gateway from EARN (European Academic Research Network) to Poland