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| 27 March 997 - recorded in chronicles as the official date of the founding of Gdańsk... | ||
 For
a thousand years Gdańsk, like a sailor with his knots, has been marking
the important and even climacteric dates of its own history in the
history of Poland, Europe and the world.In this statement there is no exaggeration dictated by a merely personal relationship with the city, which for successive generations of its inhabitants has been a small homeland and to which they have felt a particular attachment. For Gdańsk, apart from this obvious and subjectively-written history, so dear to each of its citizens, possesses also the dimension of a city-symbol, and as such it transcends its individual, regional and national significance, becoming a universal value. Although this may sound rather grandiloquent, that is in fact how it is. After all it was here in September 1939 that the hell of the Second World War started, the war that was to realise Hitler's mad plans to make Europe and half the world into the dominion of his "thousand-year" Third Reich. It was also here that the "Solidarity" movement was born, the movement that would bring about the victory of democracy in this part of Europe, which had been subjected, as a result of the Yalta Agreement, to the domination of another sick totalitarian ideology. These 
two facts in themselves, of such importance in the history of Europe
and the world, prove that thinking about Gdańsk as an exceptional
place, is not just a stylistic manipulation.Bearing that in mind, it is worth becoming acquainted with Gdańsk and offering the city a good place in one's memory. more... |
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