A woman holds a solidarity flag while she prays at the the Gdansk Shipyard in Gdansk.
A woman holds a solidarity flag while she prays at the the Gdansk Shipyard in Gdansk August 31, 2005. Representatives of 30 governments, human rights activists and historians have gathered in Poland this week to commemorate the 1980 Gdansk shipyard strike which ended 25 years ago with the birth of eastern Europe's first independent trade union, Solidarity REUTERS/Katarina Stoltz KS/AA