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.
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.
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.
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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