We Want to Live Like People, Demanded the Workers During the Uprising in Poznań in June 1956

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Seventy years ago, on June 28, 1956, a strike by workers at the Hipolit Cegielski Engineering Works in Poznań began, quickly turning into a local anti-communist uprising. It was the beginning of a nationwide wave of protests against the party leadership.

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70 years ago, the workers of the largest factories in Poznań and the region, as well as the local population, courageously demanded dignity and independence. The decision of the authorities to deploy the army against them was taken while their protest was still peaceful. On 28 June 1956, a crowd of about 100,000 demonstrators demanded justice, better working conditions, bread, freedom and withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country.