Andrzej Kiełczewski

„More and more people were coming to the depot. There was a Mass, a concert. We had an impression that at night, one night, someone was trying to get to the depot and thus some patrols were formed and we would walk down that yard, where it was quite dark. And we were looking whether someone was trying to break in. Everyone was scared, maybe not of a secret attack but of some provocation. Because we knew that there can be such ideas to drop something, do something, some event. We knew the pattern of the Security Service’s actions, so it was...”

„All the time there were such discussions and echoes of what was negotiated in Gdansk and Szczecin. What do the free unions mean, what is it all about? Who is this Wałęsa fellow? Where does that lead to?[...] but the discussions about what the free unions are, I mean what it will be, how authorities will allow for a free union to be formed and the name that it will be independent was not yet given, that was later. I guess independent it was during the registration procedure, anyway the names I guess were given then to free unions because of the tradition of free unions in the coast. And many workers attended such discussions about unions and all that. That was a hot topic.”