No idea who these people are? The only famous Solidarity poster I remember was with High Noon: https://d-pt.ppstatic.pl/k/r/1/1d/96/5cefdcae73cef_p.jpg?155...
> claimed that gay ideology be worse than communism
They basically believe (or pretend to - it's hard to distinguish what is paranoia and what is political calculation at this point) that are the alt-right conspiracy theories are true.
Gender/feminism/lgbt is cultural marxism, Soros wants to replace Europeans with Muslims from Africa, Jews and Germans want to change history and make Poles responsible for Holocaust, LGBT is a conspiracy to destroy the church and turn our kids gay (so that these leftist pedophiles may get them), ecology is a conspiracy to destroy our economy by renewable energy equipment producers and leftists in Brussels. And besides global warming is bullshit of course. Recently government promised miners that we will mine coal till 2060 (despite having to store more than 2-years' worth of it already because our coal is much more expansive than imported coal and nobody buys it except for national powerplants that are forced to buy it :) ).
Even pedophilia in Catholic church is leftist's fault because most of it is male priest to male child so they are actually members of LGBT ideology. Hard to argue with such "logic"...
Sad thing is - it's not just politicians and tinfoilers, decent people start believing parts of that after years of propaganda in state media and church.
Basically there's 30% who believe all of it, 10% who believe parts o it, and about 20% who don't but vote them anyway because of social spending. And it's been that way since 2015...
> reevaluate my prior estimate of how bad communism must have been in poland
that's the fact not many people want to speak about :) 5% of population was in the communist party. In 70s few people were protesting - economy was ok and who cares about these crazy oppositionists.
Communism sucked for people who wanted to be free or cared about historic truth or wanted to have a career, or to achieve something in life without becoming a spy. But for your average person that only wanted to have a job, a flat, and a family it was OK for most of the period. So what if it killed 20 000 people that didn't wanted communism? As long as you're behaving like everybody else it's very unlikely you'll have any problems.
Solidarity was formed because the regulated prices for many kinds of food went up (because they weren't sustainable with the inefficient economy).