President makes connection between "Battle of Warsaw" and birth of Solidarity

During his speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier yesterday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the "Battle of Warsaw" during the Polish-Russian war President Aleksander Kwasniewski said, "We are used to calling this anniversary only the "Miracle on the Wisla". Rzeczpospolita soldiers had in fact defended this young state, built after 123 years of occupation, by overcoming the Bolshevik enemy. We must remember that the same miracle was achieved in August of 1980, when workers of the Polish coast called for dignity, democracy, rational economy and labor rights." The highest ranking religious military officer Slawoj Leszek Glodz during the mass said, "We would like the army to be in first place again. It turns out that even firemen have overtaken the position of the army." (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 4)