31st anniversary of first partially free election

Today is important day in Polish calendar - 31 years ago a first partially free election after the WWII  took place. The election on June 4, 1989, were the result of agreements concluded between the communist authorities, the Solidarity opposition and the Catholic Church during the Round Table talks.

It was one of the elements of the gradual dismantling of the communist system of power.

 After 20 years, more than half of Poles (54 percent) recognized in the CBOS survey this "dangerous game" as decisive for political changes in Poland. Ten years later, 63 percent respondents in the IPSOS poll for OKO.press considered the1989 election a success, against 25 percent calling it a failure.

(Euractiv)