Editing Gdynia (section)

=== After World War II ===
[[File:Wybory 1989 2.jpg|thumb|[[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] election rally in Gdynia, 1989]]
On 28 March 1945, the city was captured by the Soviets and restored to Poland. The Soviets installed a communist regime, which stayed in power until the [[Fall of Communism]] in 1989. The post-war period saw an influx of settlers from [[Warsaw]] which was [[Destruction of Warsaw|destroyed by Germany]], and other parts of the country as well as [[Polish people|Poles]] from the cities of Wilno (now [[Vilnius]]) and Lwów (now [[Lviv]]) from the [[Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union|Soviet-annexed former eastern Poland]]. Also [[Greeks]], [[refugees of the Greek Civil War]], settled in the city.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kubasiewicz |first=Izabela |editor-last1=Dworaczek |editor-first1=Kamil |editor-last2=Kamiński |editor-first2=Łukasz |year=2013 |title=Letnia Szkoła Historii Najnowszej 2012. Referaty |language=pl |location=Warsaw|publisher=IPN |page=117 |chapter=Emigranci z Grecji w Polsce Ludowej. Wybrane aspekty z życia mniejszości}}</ref> The port of Gdynia was one of the three Polish ports through which refugees of the Greek Civil War reached Poland.<ref>Kubasiewicz, p. 114</ref>

On 17 December 1970, worker demonstrations took place at Gdynia Shipyard. Workers were fired upon by the police. [[Janek Wiśniewski]] was one of 40 killed, and was commemorated in a song by [[Mieczysław Cholewa]], ''Pieśń o Janku z Gdyni''. One of Gdynia's important streets is named after Janek Wiśniewski. The event was also portrayed in [[Andrzej Wajda]]'s movie ''[[Man of Iron]]''.

On 4 December 1999, [[Cyclone Anatol|a storm]] destroyed a huge crane in a shipyard.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} In 2002, the city was awarded the [[Europe Prize]] by the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe|Parliamentary Assembly]] of the [[Council of Europe]] for having made exceptional efforts to spread the ideal of European unity.<ref>[http://website-pace.net/web/apce/the-europe-prize The Europe Prize]</ref>