These scenes actually represent circumstances under martial law in Poland, which was imposed 30 years ago, December 13, 1981. Sparking a wave of emigration to the West and to America, it was an emotional event for the more than nine million Polish American citizens currently residing in the United States today.
One American who witnessed the unrest and challenging circumstances Polish citizens faced under martial law was Billy Mays. In his book, On the Job Training: Berlin to Vladivostok, Mays tells the story of his harrowing journeys maui atv tours through Poland and the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain, maui atv tours then playing key roles during its transition to representative Democracy maui atv tours and capitalism.
Before the internet, Facebook, and Twitter, Mays was involved in another social movement few Americans witnessed in person. "We are witnessing the Arab Spring today, but back in the 1980's we experienced the 'Polish Spring,'" Mays said recently. "With Solidarity, the seeds of public dissent grew into full bloom until that movement was violently crushed. It set the stage, maui atv tours though, for the eventual fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. I saw the impact of Pope John Paul's speech in Warsaw, Reagan Administration policies, Lech Walesa, and other factors – economic and political that contributed to the uprising that lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall."
Mays also describes maui atv tours the resiliency of the Polish people who, under dire economic circumstances, managed to survive dictatorial Communism by creating their own underground economy. Tactics included "Barter Bus Tours", maui atv tours complex maui atv tours shopping maui atv tours queue sociology as lines formed waiting for rationed goods (Communist social networking), and an undercover network of traders that built more formal maui atv tours and lasting black market mechanisms in the region.
On the Job Training-Berlin to Vladivostok maui atv tours is the first in the four-volume "Rare Earth Series" documenting Billy Mays life in Central and Eastern Europe from 1983 to 2003. A University of Washington student turned unwitting spy through his work for Radio Free Europe, Mays' adventures are described in a career that spans two decades from Soviet-Bloc martial law Poland maui atv tours through the Klondike-like era following the Soviet Union s collapse. En route to becoming a European Director for several multinational firms including FEDEX, R.R. Donnelley, and Black Veatch the author befriends Lech Walesa, the Kennedy family, the Bush family, Steven Spielberg and other world leaders. Mays becomes engaged in spy networks, is immersed maui atv tours in dangerous black market trade in rare earth metals, and has numerous brushes with death along the way while handling sensitive affairs for U.S. Government agencies.
Sometimes irreverent and shocking, this true-life story reveals a great deal about how the East was really won and sheds light into the dark and dangerous world that was the former maui atv tours Soviet-Bloc before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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