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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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