Photo: Wojtek Laski / East News 40th anniversary of signing the August Agreements, European Solidarity Center (ECS), Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, August 30, 2020 Pictured:
Photojournalist Wojtek Laski was an honorary guest at the jubilee celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the August Agreements, against the background of the Shipyard gate with a board with 21 postulates of the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee of August 1980.
An excerpt from Wojtek Laski's speech from the anniversary meeting: "Today it is four decades when the brave shipyard workers from Gdansk faced the communist authorities and signed an epochal agreement. Thanks to this, the country with 40 million people entered the path of democracy. I am honored that the organizers remembered my photographic achievements and invited me to the jubilee celebrations and I was able to share my memories from that period. Most of my photos of the Solidarnosc Trade Union and its leader Lech Walesa were taken here. "