True but there was safety in numbers. And freedom that you could experience in mass gathering. In a street protest, on a strike, in a church, discussion club,

True but there was safety in numbers. And freedom that you could experience in mass gathering. In a street protest, on a strike, in a church, discussion club, samizdat. That is why the movement in Poland called itself Solidarity. The police could have easily break a strike in a single factory but were helpless when all factories in a city went on solidarity strike. Just look at Hong-Kong today..