Cold War Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Polish Solidarity movement and martial law=== {{Main|Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Martial law in Poland}} {{Further|Soviet reaction to the Polish crisis of 1980β1981}} <!--[[File:Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)_(logo).png|thumb|Logo of the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement]]--> [[Pope John Paul II]] provided a moral focus for [[anti-communism]]; a visit to his native Poland in 1979 stimulated a religious and nationalist resurgence centered on the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity movement]] trade union that galvanized opposition and may have led to his [[Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II|attempted assassination]] two years later.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}<!-- Henze, p. 171 citation not found --> In December 1981, Poland's [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] reacted to the crisis by imposing [[Martial law in Poland|a period of martial law]]. Reagan imposed economic sanctions on Poland in response.{{sfn|Gaddis|2005|pp=219β222}} [[Mikhail Suslov]], the Kremlin's top ideologist, advised Soviet leaders not to intervene if Poland fell under the control of Solidarity, for fear it might lead to heavy economic sanctions, resulting in a catastrophe for the Soviet economy.{{sfn|Gaddis|2005|pp=219β222}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page