A high-stakes political confrontation between Deputy Prime Minister Rakowski and union leader Lech Walesa during the Polish crisis. Rakowski uses the threat of Soviet intervention to pressure Walesa into calling off a general strike, while Walesa demands accountability for police brutality against citizens.
RAKOWSKI: While we're standing here the armies of the Warsaw Pact are conducting exercises on Polish soil. Your warning strike was the greatest disruption of work in the history of this country. I mean in the history of the Polish People's Republic. If the general strike goes ahead we could end up w
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