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{{Short description|1981 government crackdown on a strike in Bydgoszcz, Poland}}
[[Image:WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg|thumb|350px|right|March 20-21, 1981, issue of ''Wieczór Wrocławia'' (The [[Wrocław]] Evening). Blank spaces remain after the government [[Censorship|censor]] has pulled articles from page 1 (''right'', "What happened at [[Bydgoszcz]]?") and from the last page (''left'', "Country-wide strike alert"), leaving only their headlines. The printers—[[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity-trade-union]] members—decided to run the newspaper as it was, with blank spaces intact to avoid concealing the censorship. The bottom of page 1 of this [[master (original)|master]] copy bears the hand-written Solidarity confirmation of that decision.]]▼
{{Expand Russian|date=September 2017}}<!-- Ironically, the Russian version is way more detailed than the Polish one
'''Bydgoszcz events''' ({{lang-pl|wypadki bydgoskie}}) refers to a turning point in the early history of the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement. Following the registration of Solidarity by the authorities of Poland in 1980, the farmers were also pushing for creation of a separate trade union, independent from the official system of power. The ''NSZZ RI Solidarność'' (Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Individual Farmers ''Solidarity'', also called [[Rural Solidarity]]) was created, but not legalized by the authorities. Because of that on March 16, 1981 in [[Bydgoszcz]] a strike was proclaimed. ▼
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▲[[Image:WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg|thumb|350px|right|March
The '''Bydgoszcz events''' ({{lang-pl|wypadki bydgoskie}}){{Snd}}also referred to as the '''Bydgoszcz crisis''' ({{lang|pl|kryzys bydgoski}}), or the '''Bydgoszcz provocation''' ({{lang|pl|prowokacja bydgoska }}){{Snd}}were a series of events in [[Poland]] culminating in the beatings of delegates of the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement by the forces called upon by the authorities during the session of the ''[[voivodship]]'' [[National Council (Poland)|National Council]] on 19 March 1981, which was to discuss the running strike in [[Bydgoszcz]]. <ref>[http://wyborcza.pl/alehistoria/1,121681,13530070,_Solidarnosc__pobita_w_Bydgoszczy.html ""Solidarność" pobita w Bydgoszczy"], ''[[Gazeta Wyborcza]],'' March 8, 2013</ref>
This forced the authorities to finally hold the meeting of the Voivodeship National Council, a governing body of the [[Bydgoszcz Voivodeship]]. The meeting was attended by several members of Solidarity, among them [[Jan Rulewski]], [[Mariusz Łabentowicz]] and [[Roman Bartoszcze]], who were to explain the reasons for the strike. However, the Council decided not to discuss the issues related to agriculture, which made the members of Solidarity protest. The authorities responded by calling in the [[Citizen's Militia]] and the [[ZOMO]], who entered the seat of the Council and brutally pacified (beat up) the delegates of Solidarity. ▼
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Even though the authorities had a monopoly on media, the underground press reported of the ''Bydgoszcz events'' and the matter became widely publicised in a matter of days. On March 24 Solidarity decided to go on an [[1981 warning strike in Poland|nationwide strike]] in protest against the violence aimed at the delegates. The authorities bowed down and on 25 March the deputy prime minister [[Mieczysław F. Rakowski]] started a conference with the leaders of the Solidarity. This led to the signing of the so-called [[Warsaw accords]] on March 30, 1981. According to the agreement, Solidarity was allowed to report the Bydgoszcz events on public television (the first such independent news behind the [[Iron Curtain]] since the 1940s) and the government pledged to continue the talks on registration of a trade union of farmers. ▼
▲This forced the authorities to finally hold the meeting of the Voivodeship National Council, a governing body of the [[Bydgoszcz Voivodeship]]. The meeting was attended by several members of Solidarity, among them [[Jan Rulewski]], [[Mariusz Łabentowicz]] and [[Roman Bartoszcze]], who were to explain the reasons for the strike. However, the Council decided not to discuss the
▲Even though the authorities had a monopoly on media, the underground press reported
The events were extensively covered by the publication project "Kryzys Bydgoski 1981", a three-volume edition: a monograph with a DVD with film "14 dni. Prowokacja bydgoska", a collection of documents, and a collection of witness testimonies.<ref>[http://pamiec.pl/pa/kalendarium-1/11353,Promocja-projektu-wydawniczego-Kryzys-Bydgoski-1981-Bydgoszcz-12-marca-2013.html "Promocja projektu wydawniczego „Kryzys Bydgoski 1981” – Bydgoszcz, 12 marca 2013"]</ref><ref name=wiad>[http://w.dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/powstala-trzytomowa-publikacja-o-kryzysie-bydgoskim-w-1981-r "Powstała trzytomowa publikacja o kryzysie bydgoskim w 1981 r."] </ref>
==See also==
*[[1981 warning strike in Poland]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[[Lech Dymarski]], ''[http://aneks.kulturaliberalna.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/44-dymarski-por-With-Watermark.pdf Porozumienie Warszawskie]'', ''Aneks'' 44, 1986
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120111105731/http://kalendarium.polska.pl/wydarzenia/article,,id,35298.htm Archived version] [http://wiadomosci.polska.pl/kalendarz/kalendarium/article.htm?id=35298 "Prowokacja bydgoska"] {{dead link|date=September 2017}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110815165442/http://encyklopedia.sw.org.pl/storage/filmoteka/ProwokacjaBydgoska-1981.wmv Documental movie (
[[Category:1981 labor disputes and strikes]]
[[Category:1981 in Poland]]
[[Category:Events in Bydgoszcz]]
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