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    Lech Walesa was a Polish leader born in 1943 in Poland. He worked as an electrician at the Gdansk Shipyard and led strikes in 1970 and 1980 protesting price increases and demanding workers' rights. Walesa became the leader of the Solidarity movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his peaceful efforts, though he was unable to accept it due to being imprisoned by Poland's government. After the fall of communism, Walesa was elected as Poland's president in 1990 and oversaw the transition to a market-based democracy and withdrawal of Soviet troops. He received numerous honors for his human rights efforts.

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    Lech Walesa was a Polish leader born in 1943 in Poland. He worked as an electrician at the Gdansk Shipyard and led strikes in 1970 and 1980 protesting price increases and demanding workers' rights. Walesa became the leader of the Solidarity movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his peaceful efforts, though he was unable to accept it due to being imprisoned by Poland's government. After the fall of communism, Walesa was elected as Poland's president in 1990 and oversaw the transition to a market-based democracy and withdrawal of Soviet troops. He received numerous honors for his human rights efforts.

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    Lech Walesa was a Polish leader born in 1943 in Poland. He worked as an electrician at the Gdansk Shipyard and led strikes in 1970 and 1980 protesting price increases and demanding workers' rights. Walesa became the leader of the Solidarity movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his peaceful efforts, though he was unable to accept it due to being imprisoned by Poland's government. After the fall of communism, Walesa was elected as Poland's president in 1990 and oversaw the transition to a market-based democracy and withdrawal of Soviet troops. He received numerous honors for his human rights efforts.

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    Im Lech Walesa, I was born on September 29, 1943 on Popowo,

    Poland. My father, Boleslaw Walesa, was a carpenter who was rounded up


    and interned in a forced labour camp at Mlyniec by the German occupying
    forces before I was born. He returned home after the war but he died two
    months after from exhaustion and illness shortly before his 34 th birthday. My
    mother, Feliksa Kamienska Walesa has been credited with shaping my
    beliefs and tenacity. She died in a car accident in 1975. I had 3 elder sibling
    and 3 younger halfbrothers. I graduated from primary and vocational school
    nearby Chalin and Lipno as a qualified electrician. I married Miroslawa
    Danuta Golos and we had 8 children. From early in my career, I was
    interested in workers' concerns; in 1968 I encouraged shipyard colleagues
    to boycott official rallies that condemned recent student strikes. I was a
    charismatic leader, who helped organize the illegal 1970 protests at the
    Gdask Shipyard when workers protested the government's decree raising
    food prices and I was considered for the position of chairman of the strike
    committee. Me and many other Solidarity leaders and activists were
    arrested; I was incarcerated for 11 months until November 14, 1982
    at Chylice, Otwock, and Aramw; eastern towns near the Soviet border. On
    October 8, 1982 Solidarity was outlawed. In 1983 I applied to return to the
    Gdask Shipyard as an electrician. The same year, I was awarded the Nobel
    Peace Prize. I was unable to accept it, fearing Poland's government would
    not let me back into the country. My wife Danuta accepted the prize on his
    behalf. The following June 1989 parliamentary elections, I was disappointed
    some of his former fellow campaigners were satisfied to govern alongside
    former Communists. I decided to run for the newly re-established office
    of president, using the slogan, "I don't want to, but I have to". On 9
    December 1990 I won the presidential election, defeating Prime Minister
    Mazowiecki. During my presidency, I saw Poland through privatization and
    transition to a free-market economy. I successfully negotiated the
    withdrawal of Soviet troops from Poland and won a substantial reduction in
    foreign debts. In June 1978, I began to organize free trade unions of the
    coast that keep me under the constant watch of the state security service
    and later in year 1980, I became the leader of the occupational strikes held
    in Lenin Shipyard. I became the first recipient of the liberty medal which was
    awarded on july 4 1989. I lost the 1995 presidential election. I also
    represented Europe in the opening ceremony of the XIX Olympic Winter
    Games in the year 2002. And lastly I was awarded the title DEFENDER OF
    FAITH on May 30, 2007.

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