Lech Wałęsa
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Born September 29, 1943 · Popowo, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska
Biography
Lech Wałęsa (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 of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War. While working at the Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk…
Known For · 29 titles
Alpha Forum
Apostrophes
maybrit illner
Goldene Henne
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Bajland
Hammer & Tickle
Be Somebody
1989
Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga
Man of Iron
The Birth of Solidarity
In the Grip of Gazprom
Wałęsa by Wałęsa
Ingemann og Jerntæppets fald
Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
Meeting Gorbachev
Solidarność, Solidarność...
1979: Big Bang of the Present
The Last Days of the USSR
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Człowiek ze studni
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Nie kłam kochanie
Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen
Gra o Nobla
Tylko nie mów nikomu
Workers '80