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; Lech Walesa; Poland's brash union organizer stood up to the Kremlin and dealt the Eastern bloc a fatal blow; By TIMOTHY GARTON ASH; Intro: ... Lech Walesa, the fly, feisty, mustachioed electrician from Gdansk, shaped the 20th century as the leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Poles out of communism.
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www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/walesa.html
www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/walesa.html
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Lech Walesa is known for his valiant effort to free his native Poland from Communist rule. Born into a working-class family in 1943 in Popowo, he excelled in school. But lack of money forced Walesa to attend a vocational school at 16. In 1967, he moved to Gdansk where he worked in a shipyard as an electrician.
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www.historyguide.org/europe/walesa.html
www.historyguide.org/europe/walesa.html
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Lech Walesa was born on September 29, 1943 in Popowo, Poland. After graduating from vocational school, he worked as a car mechanic at a machine center from 1961 to 1965. He served in the army for two years, rose to the rank of corporal, and in 1967 was employed in the Gdansk shipyards as an electrician.
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nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1983/walesa...
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1983/walesa-bio.html
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Addressing you, as the winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, is a Polish worker from the Gdansk Shipyard, one of the founders of the independent trade union movement in Poland. It would be the simplest thing for me to say that I am not worthy of that great distinction. ... Lech Walesa thumb picture...
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nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1983/walesa...
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1983/walesa-lecture.html
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Lech Wałęsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lech Wałęsa (IPA: :Media:Lech Walesa.ogg (help·info) ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity ( Solidarność ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wałęsa
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A short biography and background notes on Lech Walesa. ... Meanwhile, Walesa is named 'Time' magazine's person of the year. "Lech Walesa is a man of emotion, not of logic or analysis," the magazine says. "So was the movement which he all but lost control of in the end, guided more by hope and passion than by rationality.
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www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/walesa.html
www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/walesa.html
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This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. ... August 14, 2007 at 14:05 ... This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 11/4/2007 by the administrator or reviewer PxMa,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lech_Walesa.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lech_Walesa.jpg
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