Link: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lech-Walesa
Description: WEBApr 15, 2024 · Lech Walesa, labor activist who helped form and led (1980–90) Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity, and later was president of the country (1990–95). He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983. Learn more about Walesa’s life and career.
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa
Description: WEBWałęsa following the signing of the Gdańsk Agreement Recorded 31 August 1980. Lech Wałęsa [a] [b] (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president ...
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/summary/Lech-Walesa
Description: WEBLech Wałęsa, (born Sept. 29, 1943, Popowo, near Włocławek, Pol.), Polish labour leader and president of Poland (1990–95). An electrician, he worked in the Lenin Shipyard at Gdańsk, Pol. (1967–76), but he was fired for his antigovernment activities. In 1980 he joined workers in a strike and soon became leader of the Solidarity trade union.
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Link: https://achievement.org/achiever/lech-walesa/
Description: WEBFeb 11, 2022 · In 1990, Lech Walesa was elected to a five-year term as President of Poland. His autobiography, The Struggle and the Triumph, first appeared in English in 1992. Walesa supported the policy of “shock treatment” to convert Poland’s socialist economy to a Western capitalist model.
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Link: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1983/walesa/biographical/
Description: WEBLearn about the life and achievements of Lech Walesa, the Polish leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his struggle against communism.
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Link: https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/polish-history-biographies/lech-walesa
Description: WEBMay 21, 2018 · Lech Walesa (born 1943), charismatic leader of Solidarity, the independent trade union movement in Poland, was awarded the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his valiant struggle to secure workers' rights through negotiation and peaceful means.
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Link: https://www.voanews.com/a/q-a-former-polish-president-lech-walesa-asks-world-to-help-ukraine-/7486291.html
Description: WEBFeb 13, 2024 · Former Polish President Lech Walesa visited the U.S. capital this week to rally for renewed U.S. military aid to Ukraine. The 80-year-old labor leader-turned-politician and Nobel laureate said...
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Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/news/polish-hero-lech-walesa-from-electrician-to-president-49860248
Description: WEBDec 19, 2012 · An electrician by trade, Lech Walesa formed Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union. He went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and served as president of...
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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2018/nov/14/lech-walesa-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-archive-1983
Description: WEBNov 14, 2018 · Lech Walesa, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize-winner, travelled no further than Warsaw in the latest stage of his odyssey. Having decided, possibly wrongly, that he risked being refused re-entry to...
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Link: https://www.walesa.org/en/founder/biography
Description: WEBLech Wałęsa is the legendary leader of the “Solidarity” movement and the author of its victory in 1989 over the communist regime in Poland. His life in inseparably connected with the Polish history and Poland’s way to freedom. …
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