Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1981-12-15
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Reference number: MC2806-829
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Scope and Content
The social unrest in Poland is portrayed by a map of Poland that is split and the two sides, Solidarity under chairman Lech Walesa and the government under General Wojciech Jaruzelski, opposing each other on either side of a bridge that is not joined in the middle.
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Open Chasm - Poland
Persons
Wojciech Jaruzelski
- Born Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski July 6, 1923
- Political and military leader in communist Poland
- Prime Minister of Poland, 1981 to 1985
- Head of Polish Council of State, 1985 to 1989
- President of Poland, 1989 to 1990
- Imposed martial law in reponse to Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, December 1981
- Tried unsuccessfully to persuade Solidarity to join the Communists
- Resigned as Poland's leader, 1990, succeeded by Walesa
Lech Walesa
- Born in Popowo, Poland, September 29, 1943
- Polish activist and politician
- Co-founded Solidarity (Solidarnosc), independent trade union within soviet Poland
- Lead and supported a general strike across Poland beginning in the Gdansk shipyard, 1980
- Interned for 11 months (until November 14, 1982) when Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of martial law, 1981
- Organized the Temporary Executive Committee of Solidarity Trade Union, 1987 to 1990
- President of Poland, 1990 to 1995