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“Poland was under the gun,” Newsweek said when the mass labor union movement, Solidarity, challenged the Polish government’s alignment with the Soviet Union. “With that extraordinary cry of alarm, Poland’s Communist rulers begged their own people for cooperation and restraint .... ” Last month, a Russian-made missile struck Poland, killing two people,the first time in the nine-month-long Russia-ukraine war that a Nato-country’s territory was hit. Poland and NATO said the rocket could have been a Ukrainian air defense missile and the strike was likely unintentional.