Chris Niedenthal

40th Anniversary of the GDR. Military parade in East Berlin
1989, East Germany

Lech Walesa arriving for registration of Solidarity trade union, Warsaw
1980, Poland

Pope John Paul II at Jasna Góra
1979, Poland

Crowd of faithful during visit of Pope John Paul II
1979, Poland

Prayers after assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, Cracow
1981, Poland

Václav Havel, Czech dissident, later to become President
1987, Czechoslovakia

John Paul II leaving Warsaw
1979, Poland

Listening to a Boris Yeltsin election campaign speech
1989, USSR

End of strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk
1980, Poland

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Duma, Moscov
1989, USSR

Pope John Paul II in Gdańsk. The crowd at the Zaspa housing estate
1987, Poland

Warsaw, Solidarity supporters, martial law
1982, Poland

Pope John Paul II in Warsaw's Old Town
1979, Poland

Boris Yeltsin during election rally, Moscow
1989, USSR

Preparations before the start of the First Solidarity Convention in Oliwa
1981, Poland

Boris Yeltsin, Moscow
1989, USSR

Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk; the last Mass before the end of the strike
1980, Poland

Strike in Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, August
1980, Poland

XVII Communist Party Congress, Prague
1988, Czechoslovakia

Lech Wałęsa, arriving at court for the registration of Solidarity
1980, Poland

Karol Wojtyła is the new Pope, Cracow
1978, Poland

Lech Wałęsa during the strike in Lenin's Shipyard
1980, Poland

Martial law, Warsaw
1982, Poland

End of the Lenin Shipyard strike, 31st of August
1980, Poland