The Year That Changed the World (2009)
“Pfft! Pfft! What’s that sound? Democracy in action.
Solidarity’s election campaign featured a poster of a gun-slinging Gary Cooper as the sheriff in the classic western High Noon. It was June 4, 1989—reckoning day in Dodge City East. The polls had only been open an hour or so, but to journalists covering the story it was already obvious that Solidarity would win by a landslide. Yet neither the opposition nor the communists knew. The previous evening, flying in from Prague, I’d met Solidarity ca...mpaigners at the depressing Hotel Europejski. “We’re like students before an exam,” one said, nervously wondering whether they would pass. As for the communists, they still spoke about doing at least respectably.
Lambs to the slaughter. Let us visit the abattoir.
On this bright Sunday morning, a tentative spring had turned to summer. The grass ran long and wild in the parks. Clouds lounged carefree in a vast blue sky. People dressed for church, and on the way they stopped at the polls.MoreLess
Solidarity’s election campaign featured a poster of a gun-slinging Gary Cooper as the sheriff in the classic western High Noon. It was June 4, 1989—reckoning day in Dodge City East. The polls had only been open an hour or so, but to journalists covering the story it was already obvious that Solidarity would win by a landslide. Yet neither the opposition nor the communists knew. The previous evening, flying in from Prague, I’d met Solidarity ca...mpaigners at the depressing Hotel Europejski. “We’re like students before an exam,” one said, nervously wondering whether they would pass. As for the communists, they still spoke about doing at least respectably.
Lambs to the slaughter. Let us visit the abattoir.
On this bright Sunday morning, a tentative spring had turned to summer. The grass ran long and wild in the parks. Clouds lounged carefree in a vast blue sky. People dressed for church, and on the way they stopped at the polls.MoreLess
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