The
National Flag of Poland consists of two equal horizontal bands of white on the upper part and red on the lower half. These were ordained and defined in the Polish Constitution as the national colors and is witness to the country's various struggle for sovereignty. The shade of the Polish flag is relatively popular and two other countries sport similar arrangement, like the one that Indonesia and Monaco flies.
The flag like its people though popular has made several contributions to world consciousness. Who would forget Pope John Paul II, if you are religious then you would know that his Holiness was the first prelate to occupy the highest seat of Roman Catholicism at the Vatican City that is not Italian by descent. And he made the Polish proud as he energized the religious community and sects around the world.
Not to be left behind is the concentration camp in Auschwitz built in 1939 by the invading foreign power, and turned it into a human laboratory where 1.35 million Jews and more than 100,000 were experimented on and murdered.
Then in 1947 the Communist took reigns of the government but it did not deter the citizens away from Roman Catholicism. And when conditions became unbearable because of soaring prices and tumbling wages, Solidarity (Eastern bloc's first free-trade union) was born. Thus Solidarity's popularity became the beacon for the struggle that eventually reached its peak when the first free election in Poland in more than 40years was held in 1989.
Solidarity swept the elections, thus paving the way and moving USSR's satellite country towards democracy and free enterprise.
It is written in history books as the first country in Eastern Europe to overthrow communist rule.
by:
The Flagman
