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Six months after the imposition of martial law, more than eleven years after the 1970 independence uprising on the Coast and 14 years after the protests of March 1968, May 3, 1982, on the holiday of the adoption of the Constitution of May 3, there was one of the largest confrontations with the authorities since the massacre of December 1970.In many cities and in Warsaw, mainly young people with white and red flags faced an uneven fight with the ruling camp, represented by the Mechanized Troops of the Civic Militia (ZOMO). In Warsaw alone, the number of demonstrators exceeded 20,000 people.
OnMay 3, 1982, 2 people were killed, although there could have been many more victims, given the particular brutality of the militia. Exceptionally fierce clashes, the result of the primitively ruthless response of the repressive forces of the People's Republic of Poland, occurred in Warsaw, especially in the vicinity of the Slasko-Dabrowski bridge and Castle Square, where cars with water cannons were used to disperse the protesters. During them, 56-year-old Mieczyslaw Radomski collapsed and died on the way to the hospital. In Szczecin, the victim in particularly tragic circumstances was Wladyslaw Duda. He did not take part in the demonstrations, but his apartment was "gassed" to such an extent with tear gas, used by communist police forces pacifying Poles on the streets of Szczecin, that he began to suffocate. The militia refused to call an ambulance for Władysław Duda's wife.
