Lech Wałęsa (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɛɣ vaˈwɛ̃sa] ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served...
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Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa (pronounced [jaˈrɔswav vaˈwɛ̃sa]; born 13 September 1976) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005...
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Danuta Wałęsa (Polish: [mirɔˈswava daˈnuta vaˈwɛ̃sa]; née Gołoś [ˈɡɔwɔɕ]; born 25 February 1949) is the wife of former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa. In...
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and 1995. Wałęsa may also refer to: Danuta Wałęsa (born 1949), wife of Lech Wałęsa Jarosław Wałęsa (born 1976), Polish MP and son of Lech Wałęsa Gdańsk Lech...
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Wałęsa Airport (Polish: Port Lotniczy Gdańsk im. Lecha Wałęsy, formerly Polish: Port Lotniczy Gdańsk-Rębiechowo, German: Flughafen Danzig Lech Walesa)...
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Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, former dissident, politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. He has received multiple awards and...
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Walesa: Man of Hope (Polish: Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei [vaˈwɛ̃sa ˈt͡ʂwɔvjɛɡ z naˈd͡ʑɛ.i]) is a 2013 Polish biopic film directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring...
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President Lech Wałęsa advanced to the second round. Kwaśniewski won the election with 52% of the vote in the run-off against 48% for Wałęsa. The two favorites...
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candidates who successfully managed to register - Solidarity chairman Lech Wałęsa, Canadian entrepreneur Stanisław Tymiński, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki...
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Anna Walentynowicz (section Disagreements with Wałęsa)
mentioned earlier than Lech Wałęsa. She also headed the list of the strike committee of the Gdańsk shipyard typed by Lech Wałęsa. On the third day of the...
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Jan Olszewski (section Clashes with Wałęsa)
accelerated. In March 1992, a period of confusion occurred when president Lech Wałęsa presented his conception of new economic and military alliance with former...
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Lech Wałęsa Institute (Polish: Instytut Lecha Wałęsy) is a non-governmental, non profit organization established in 1995 by Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize...
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who opposed entry into the European Union and former president Lech Wałęsa. Wałęsa was rejected as the candidate for the Solidarity party he had won the...
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to the presidency, Lech Wałęsa had a deeply strained relationship with Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, stemming from Wałęsa's belief that Mazowiecki...
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Solidarity (Polish trade union) (category Lech Wałęsa)
the country's working-age population. In 1983 Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the union is widely recognized as...
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August 14, 1980, at the Lenin Shipyards (now Gdańsk Shipyards) by Lech Wałęsa and others. In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union...
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friend and aide of Lech Wałęsa. Before he became a minister of state, he had been a taxi driver, who voluntarily wanted to drive Wałęsa. He was rumored to...
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Bush. Other world leaders attended including Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Wałęsa. Reagan was interred at his presidential library. In 2008, British historian...
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the government-in-exile continued in London until the election of Lech Wałęsa as President of the Republic of Poland in December 1990, upon which it handed...
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Roosevelt Margaret Sanger Margaret Thatcher Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel Lech Wałęsa Artists & entertainers Louis Armstrong Lucille Ball The Beatles Marlon Brando...
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exercised no real power and, in the 1990 Polish presidential election, Lech Wałęsa succeeded him as the first President elected in a popular vote. Having served...
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1997: Jim and Shelley Douglass 2000s 2000: George G. Higgins 2001: Lech Wałęsa 2002: Gwen Hennessey / Dorothy Hennessey 2004: Arthur Simon 2005: Donald...
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Interior Minister Czesław Kiszczak began talks with Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa on August 31. These talks broke down in October, but a new series of negotiations...
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki and forcing Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa to stand a second ballot. After Wałęsa defeated him by a wide margin, Tymiński was a leader...
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behind its downfall and catalyst for "a peaceful revolution" in Poland. Lech Wałęsa, the founder of Solidarity and the first post-Communist President of Poland...
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nad zabytkami, Dz. U., 2003, vol. 162, No. 1568 "Strona domeny walesa.tv". www.walesa.tv. Retrieved October 4, 2019. "Pomniki historii".[dead link] "The...
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led by Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński, and the trade union's leader, Lech Wałęsa, who sought to sideline the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) and create...
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Roosevelt Margaret Sanger Margaret Thatcher Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel Lech Wałęsa Artists & entertainers Louis Armstrong Lucille Ball The Beatles Marlon Brando...
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Pöttering Prodi Schuman Söder Strauss Sturzo Tindemans Vogelsang von der Leyen Wałęsa Weber Windthorst Parties American Solidarity Party Austrian People's Party...
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