Glosy / Voices av Jan Polkowski

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<p>In December 1970, amid a harsh winter and an even harsher economic situation, the ruling communist regime in Poland chose to drastically raise prices on basic foodstuffs. Just before the Christmas holidays, for example, the price of fish, a staple of the traditional Christmas Eve meal, rose nearly 20%. Frustrated citizens took to the streets to protest, demanding the repeal of the price-hikes. </p><p><br></p><p>Things took an especially dramatic turn in the northern regions near the Baltic shore - later, the cradle of the Solidarity movement, which would eventually spark the fall of communism in Poland and throughout Central and Eastern Europe - where the government moved against their citizens with the Militia and the Army. Forty-one Poles were murdered by their own government when militiamen and soldiers opened fire with live rounds on the crowds in Gdansk, Gdynia, Szczecin and Elblag. </p><p><br></p><p>Jan Polkowski''s moving poetic cycle <em>Glosy</em> [Voices], presented here i