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Gdansk GDANSK (DANZIG) Gdansk is an amazingly beautiful city in spite of (or thanks to?) it's turbulent history. There are not many places in the world where the history of our time seems more immediate. After all it was here in September 1939 that the hell of the Second World War started, the war that was to realise Hitler's mad plans to make Europe and half the world into the dominion of his 'thousand-year' Third Reich.<br> It was also here that the Solidarity movement was born, the movement that would bring about the victory of democracy in this part of Europe, which had been subjected, as a result of the Yalta Agreement, to the domination of another sick totalitarian ideology The city center was completely destroyed during WW-II. In the Dlugi Targ (Long Market) with the beautiful coloured houses, only two were still standing after the big bombardments! After the war, these houses were all rebuilt stone for stone.
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