It’s Past High Noon for Poland’s Liberals

"All Poles recognize the likeness of Gary Cooper from the 1952 film High Noon. The Polish Cooper holds an election ballot over a backdrop of the Solidarity trade union’s iconic red letters. Below his feet appear the words “High Noon 4 June 1989.” The political poster appeared all over Poland that year, ahead of the first partially free elections of the communist Polish People’s Republic, and it became one of the most enduring symbols of the fall of communism in Europe."

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