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  Nancy Nicol
Let Poland Be Poland
 
  Canada 1983
83:00, colour and black-and-white
This is an illegal production. Illegally recorded television material is used in this video, which will need enormous exposure to reach as many people as the original broadcast from which it was pirated. The source of the material is the world-wide Poland Show in which Ronald Reagan, accompanied by Thatcher, Mitterand, Schmidt and even the Turkish prime minister Ulusu, called for solidarity with the Polish people. Are the hands of all these world figures clean enough to make such an appeal? And how do the media and the V.I.P.'s behave normally when people stand up for their rights in a Western country? Furthermore, are there not people with business interests in Poland who secretly hope for Soviet intervention, because that would protect their interests?


Text and research: Nancy Nicol, Patty Brady, Narrators: Patty Brady, Carl Harmfeld, Phyllis Wall, Valerie Fullard, Nancy Nicol, Camera: Mark Swabb, Puppeteer: Adrian Holt, Production: Intervention Productions