25th anniversary of "The Solidarity" ahead

When "Solidarity" appeared, I haven't even been born. The movement was a first outbreak of freedom in so-called "Soviet block", and despite the fact that it was suffocated by commies in December 1981 (when a 3-year martial law was introduced), it moved domino bricks: the round table in Poland (1989), "the velvet revolution" in Czechoslovakia, finally - the fall of Berlin Wall and soviet empire itself.
The process keeps going with outbreaks of freedom in Ukraina (the Orange Revolution, 2004), or Georgia... We're all waiting for Belarus now. My memories from childhood are connected with empty shops, 2-channels TV with lame soviet cartoons once a day and sad dreams about western toys. My children - for what I hope - won't notice a difference between Poland and "normal world". They won't be asking about guys in uniforms on TV.
That's why the 25th anniversary of founding "Solidarity" is important for guys like me.

PS. There's a site concerning "Solidarity" really worth seeing here.