Anna Walentynowicz Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Anna Walentynowicz (Polish pronunciation: [?anna val?nt??n?vit??]; 15 August 1929 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish free trade union activist.Her firing in August 1980 was the event which ignited the strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gda?sk, set off a wave of strikes in Poland, and quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast.The Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) based in the Gda?sk shipyard eventually transformed itself into Solidarity trade union, of which she became a prominent member.By September, more than one million workers were on strike in support of the 21 demands of MKS, making it the largest strike ever.Walentynowicz's arrest became an organizing slogan [Bring Anna Walentynowicz Back to Work!] in the early days of the Gdansk strike, is now widely regarded as the "mother of independent Poland."
I was the drop that caused the cup of bitterness to overflow.
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In 1980, she was a welder and crane operator at a Gdansk shipyard. She was fired just a few months before she was scheduled to retire, leading to strikes at the shipyard and elsewhere in Poland. This led to the founding of the Solidarity movement.
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She was orphaned during WWII, and started working as a maid when she was 10.
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She was known as "the grandmother of Solidarity".
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Worked with Lech Walesa in the early 1980s to agitate against communist rule, but later turned against him for personal and ideological reasons.
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She died on 10 April 2010 in a plane crash at Smolensk-North airport in Russia. Walentynowicz and many Polish officials (96 people in total), including president of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, were on their way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.
$20 Million
