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European Solidarity Centre and Square

The Solidarity Museum is a museum just to the North of the city center. It is dedicated to the Solidarity movement, that was created by the former shipyard worker Lech Walesa.

Here you also find the Three Crosses Monument (also called the "Solidarity Monument") at Solidarity Square, that symbolizes the workers struggle and is a memorial for the ones who died during the strikes. The Solidarity movement (Solidarnosc) was created by Walesa to protest against the poor working conditions for the workers at the Lenin Shipyard (today Gdansk Shipyard) in the early 1970s. In 1980 the big strikes at the shipyard led to protests all over Eastern Europe, and finally lead to the fall of the communist regime in Poland. Solidarity later became a political party, with Lech Walesa as a leader. Between 1990 and 95 he became the president of Poland.

Three Crosses Monument, or Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers 1970, and the Solidarity Museum at the Solidarity Square (Plac Solidarnosci). The monument is made of three tall crosses, 42m and weighing 36 tons each, made by the shipyard workers, with an anchor on top of each of them. It was unveiled in 1980, after the protests that led to the fal of the communist regime.

Three Crosses Monument is a tall monument at the Solidarity Square, commemorating the victims of the strike.