He hurts them because they wandered off that August road, because they forgot about the workers and made them into subjects in often brutal economic experiments (not to be mistaken for necessary reforms). They were ready to accept anything, mainly the Round Table talks, which maybe was a good solution in 1989 but it had pulled Poland down in the following decades. Yet Kornel Morawiecki had never once forgotten what “Solidarity” and solidarity meant. And he got to live in a time, where on the independence and social level, his dream started to become true. This is what he said, in an interview after receiving a high distinction from Hungarian PM Viktor Orban: “I’d like the major course to not change, so that the change, which is based on more solidarity and higher social sensitivity, will be maintained. This change is very important to me.”
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