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Michael Palin’s New Europe Season 1 Episode 6

Arriving in Gdansk via canal, Michael meets former electrician Lech Walesa who formed ‘Solidarity’, Poland’s first independent trade union, which led to the demise of communism in that country. Heading to Warsaw he visits the Palace of Culture, Stalin’s controversial gift to Varsovians. Michael then makes his own personal pilgrimage to Auschwitz.

Episode Title: From Pole to Pole

Air Date: 2007-10-21