Through Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, Brzezinski met with Adam Michnik, then a communist party member and future Polish Solidarity activist.

He actively supported Polish Solidarity and the Afghan resistance to Soviet invasion, and provided covert support for national independence movements in the Soviet Union.

That was a prominent idea in the early underground days of Polish Solidarity.

Hungarian Solidarity Movement led by Péter Kónya, a social and trade union movement, based on the Polish Solidarity, formed on 4 October 2011.

So do veterans of Polish Solidarity and the Czech freedom movement.

Kirkpatrick and Norman Podhoretz before 1982 argued that communism could not be overthrown and that the Polish labor-union Solidarity was doomed.

Several times he was imprisoned for short periods, both for his samizdat publishing activities and for his smuggling across the Polish border in cooperation with members of Polish Solidarity.

Polish Solidarity would not have existed without a Polish Pope whose own faith and example shows how to build a new Europe through a civilisation based on love.

Mr President, today we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of Polish Solidarity and debating its message for Europe.

If this Polish "Solidarity" rubbish went much further, the infection would begin to spread-west to Germany, south to Czechoslovakia... and east to the Soviet Union?