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One segment in the Roads to Freedom exhibition, where the Gdańsk shipyard strike of 1980 is placed nine years before the Wall opened.
One segment in the Roads to Freedom exhibition at the European Solidarity Centre. The argument the site makes is chronological: the strike at the Lenin Shipyard in August 1980 came nine years before the Wall opened. A German object in a Polish museum, used to say that the sequence usually told in the West runs backwards.
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Sources & verification
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
A segment in the Roads to Freedom exhibition, Gdańsk.
Source accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Source accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 142
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