I owe my participation in both events to friends who announced their presence during the celebration of our next “national event in the name of independency and justice” as well as in the next economical forum in Karpacz.
This can be referred to as ‘God's finger’, the decree of destiny that for the first time in my life I participated in the Gdańsk anniversary celebrations, although since childhood, as a boy and grandson of the Warsaw Insurgents, I was allowed to join the anti-communist opposition, long before August 1980.
Also on emigration since 1978, I have been engaged since the first days in various independent initiatives, and straight in the post-war Cologne Working Group "Solidarity" for the benefit of NSZZ "SOLIDARITY" and the publishing underground. This slave function of emigration for freedom Fatherland is not seen adequate today, and it frequently depreciates. Thus, for the first time, I was at the historical shipyard on 31 August morning, under the "Three Crosses" against the background of the awesome ECS (European Solidarity Centre). Strangely enough, there are pictures of the building on the net without these ‘Three Crosses’, and even in the ‘Anniverary edition’ of ECS on the occasion of the 10th anniversary we have a side shot with the foreground of ‘STOCZN ...’, although the yard is long gone. The editorial of the current publication states that "ECS is simply a modern cultural institution presenting the way to freedom of Poles and another peoples of Central and east Europe, a place of culture and the maintenance of civic values. In many ways we keep in head the experience of solidarity as a peaceful European revolution. We want Solidarity to be an crucial part of Europe's founding myth." What is the "founding story of Europe" is unfortunately not a fact, and that is why the phenomenon of Solidarity is becoming a story not only on a global and European scale, which has become so evident during these ceremonies. It is surely interesting for many to hear the individual of the ECS manager Dr. Basil Kerski, whom I had the chance to perceive to at the Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung) in Sainkt Augustin, Bonn, at the beginning of the “new age” at the time with a lecture on “Polish anti-Semitism”. Unfortunately, erstwhile I tried to challenge Kerski's a historical lie, my voice was taken away.
Thanks to the fact that authoritative ceremonies with the participation of the president of Poland Andrzej Duda in the historical OSH hall were planned for the afternoon, there was a time for getting to know so much of the announced over 2 weeks of Holy Solidarity and Freedom on the ECS website https://ecs.gda.pl/event/save-solidarity-and-freedom/ . So I was given the chance to participate in the "Meeting of Heroes and Heroes of August ’80" with the announced participation of Jerzy Borovczak, Bogdan Borusewicz, Tadeusz Fiszbach, Bożena Grżaczewska, Maciej Grżaczewski, Henryka Krzywonos-Strycharska, Bogdan Lisa, Jack Taylor and Danuta Wałęsowa. Bogdan Borusewicz and Tadeusz Fiszbach, despite the announcements, did not appear, but the leader of the gathering ed. Agnieszka Mikhailov didn't even mention it. The fete star was the wife of Lech Wałęsa and Gdańsk itself in the individual of president Alexandra Dulkiewicz, as a unique place to sign the agreements, but without giving the context of the protests which broke out in the summertime of 1980 across the country, as well as earlier protests from the 1970s. From the statements collected at the awesome office of the European Centre for Solidarity of the Worlds and Heroes of those events, the hatred of the present NSZZ “Solidarity” and its leaders, who inactive treat 21 postulates as their program, not just worship the fetish. In this spitting out the present Solidarity for its engagement in the current policy, Bogdan Lis, who was erstwhile liable for the relations of the underground of solidarity after 13 December 1981 with abroad, was distinguished. Nota bene from this financial assistance, flowing continuously for “Solidarity” from around the world, no 1 has decently settled down to this day.
In the afternoon, in the historical OSH room, the spirit of those days was felt and the exhibition with decor in the reality of the PRL brought events closer to 44 years ago. In the presence of the president of Poland Andrzej Duda and the president of the Union of Piotr Duda and erstwhile heads of Marian Krzaklewski and Janusz Śniadek, the signatories of the “August Agreements” and anti-communist opposition activists Joanna Duda-Gwiazda, Andrzej Stara, Jerzy Kmiecik, Andrzej Kołodziej and Krzysztof Wyszkowski were welcomed, as well as union delegations from all over the country. I had the chance to meet Andrzej Star personally, during the ceremony in Aachen in 10 years NSZZ ‘SOLIDARITY’. At the yearly Conference of Solidarity Support Organizations (CSSO), erstwhile on the American continent and erstwhile on the European continent, we coordinated actions and exchanged experiences. In 1990 it came out as Akwizgran, organized by the “Solidarity” Working Group there. The 10th anniversary was then celebrated by Andrzej Star and his skepticism about the findings of the circular table and subsequent unbreakable statements about the socio-political changes in the country, which inactive sound casandric.
The full agenda of this year's celebrations can be found at the Solidarity Weekly link https://www.tysol.pl/a127158-44-year-old-August agreement , including the President's full speech... https://www.president.pl/updates/statements-President-rp/outputs/President-solidarity-stand-and-want-to-stand-on-wars-basic-values,90621
An interesting description of these ceremonies is provided on the website of the Institute of National Memory, which I will quote: “Another part of the ceremony was held at the historical Gate No. 2 of Gdańsk Shipyard. The flowers were submitted by the president of the Republic of Poland and the president of the Republic of Poland Dr. Karol Nawrocki, together with the manager of the IPN branch in Gdańsk by Dr. Marek Szymaniak and the manager of the Office of the president of the Republic of Poland by Jarosław Dębowski. Andrzej Stara and Joanna Duda-Stara participated in the event. The celebrations of Solidarity and Freedom Day culminated with the Holy Mass at St. Brigida's Basilica." ... https://ipn.gov.pl/en/updates/203694, Celebration-44-years-signing-August-and-rise-NSZZ-Solidarn.html ...
The undeniable fact was that the president with the signatories of the “August Agreements” including the spouses of Joanna and Andrzej Stara and Union president Piotr Duda were the first to lay flowers under the shipyard gate and only then another participants ... besides the delegation of the IPN. 
Memory can be fleeting, and established in specified a curiosistic way by the state institution set up for this intent ... well, by their actions we get to know them and it is not the first constatation of the actions of the IPN under the chairmanship of Dr. Karol Nawrocki, present mentioned even as a possible candidate of the alleged wide right-wing camp for president of the Republic of Poland. This is how this crucial institution is affected by the past of our State.
33. The economical Forum set itself the goal of mapping the imagination of the future, and not just our country. The momentum of the event and the place itself at first glance is awesome for participants of FE.
It is associated more with the global Trade Fair, and the thematic offer is so wide that it is hard to choose. Sometimes “more is less” or “less is more” as economists say. In short, "excess damage" in all area. The crowd of events does not facilitate dialogue, the deficiency of chance to ask questions frequently does not let speakers to scope into the cognition and experience. It seems alternatively uncontrollable chaos. Social media comments can read the opinions of disappointed participants who even sought out bad goals from organizers. To not be unspeakable...
The forum gives, without any repost, a voice to Leszek Balcerowicz, who in the long monologue of the sleaze en gros of Polish politicians as infirms, of course not including himself. Listeners take it like pelicans, no comment. Another panel discussion is the ex-prime show by Grzegorz Kolodka, Mateusz Morawiecki, Janusz Steinhoff and Dariusz Rosati. All, like 1 husband who has shared work for the state of our country, and since the beginnings of the transformation, have mentioned only delicate pinches among themselves, under the motto: "It is not us, ... it is them."
All in isolation from the reality of the country that...no.
In turn, a panel on capitalism, besides bet “highly carat”, not only policies that do not include the concept of “entrepreneurship” or “entrepreneur”, not to mention a qualitative discrimination between manager and entrepreneur.
Similarly, in the panel discussion on the “social capital” destroyed in Poland for decades due to arbitrary judicial-official decisions, there is no notion of “responsibility” for decisions taken. After 33 years you can anticipate more than just aspiration to be “Polish Davos”.
However, despite many shortcomings, the strong emphasis of this year's FE was the presentation of an expert survey and social investigation prepared on behalf of the National Commission of the NSZZ Solidarity under the editorial board of Dr. Artur Bartoszewicz with a multi-member squad entitled DRAPIEZNY GREEN (NO) ŁAD ... https://www.tysol.pl/a127378-drapes-green-no-lad-nzz-solidarity-on-forum-economic-in-carpathie
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