From the Prisons of Poland

I have been working in Poland as a free-lance journalist for longer than I care to recall, and certainly for longer than the brief period of Solidarity’s legal existence. I was there when martial law was imposed, and I had the rare opportunity to study the reactions not only of colleagues and friends but of a whole society, as it slowly underwent a forced silence all the more depressing when contrasted with the previous period of totally open debate and discussion.