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On Thursday 17th the Russians, following up their denunciation five days earlier of Solidarnosc's congress as an "anti-socialist and anti-Soviet bacchanalia" delivered their most ominous note yet to the Polish government.
The message, conveyed personally by Aristov, the Soviet ambassador in Warsaw, denounced the workers' movement as Polish workers demand more food to organise their meetings, they are given access to the mass media and have technical equipment put at their disposal. We don't hide the fact that all this arouses the deep indignation of the Soviet people"
Is this message a final warning — crack down or we invade — or has the Kremlin already lost confidence in the Polish stalinists? They put on a war-like, militant face to please the Russians and a compromising one to contain the workers, in the end satisfying no-one.
As Solidarnosc moves towards the second session of its national Congress, due to start on September 25th, it is caught in a very real dilemma.
Caste
It seeks not to tread on the bureaucracy's toes and not to offer a directly political challenge to the privileged caste. Nevertheless reality impinges on this schema — all the best laid plans for 'historic compromise" Eastern
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