Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War. While working at the Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk Shipyard), Wałęsa, an electrician, became a trade-union activist, for which he was persecuted by the government, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980, he was instrumental in political negotiations that led to the ground-breaking Gdańsk Agreement between striking workers and the government. He co-founded the Solidarity trade-union, whose membership rose to over ten million. After martial law in Poland was imposed and Solidarity was outlawed, Wałęsa was again arrested. Released from custody, he continued his activism and was prominent in the establishment of the Round Table Agreement that led to the semi-free 1989 Polish legislative election and a Solidarity-led government. He presided over Poland's transition from Marxist–Leninist state socialism into a free-market capitalist liberal democracy, but his active role in Polish politics diminished after he narrowly lost the 1995 Polish presidential election. In 1995, he established the Lech Wałęsa Institute. Since 1980, Wałęsa has received hundreds of prizes, honors and awards from multiple countries and organizations worldwide. He was named the Time Person of the Year (1981) and one of Time's 100 most important people of the 20th century (1999). He has received over forty honorary degrees, including from Harvard University and Columbia University, as well as dozens of the highest state orders, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and the French Grand Cross of Legion of Honour. In 1989, Wałęsa was the first foreign non-head of state to address the Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress. The Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport has borne his name since 2004. Wałęsa was born in Popowo, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Germany (German-occupied Poland). His father, Bolesław Wałęsa (1908–1945), was a carpenter who was rounded up and interned in a forced labour camp at Młyniec (outpost of KL Stutthof) by the German occupying forces before Lech was born. Bolesław returned home after the war but died two months later from exhaustion and illness. Lech's mother, Feliksa Wałęsa (née Kamieńska; 1916–1975), has been credited with shaping her son's beliefs and tenacity. ... Source: Article "Lech Wałęsa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Npe: Lech Wałęsa
  • Cov Nrov: 1.126
  • Paub Txog: Acting
  • Hnub yug: 1943-09-29
  • Qhov chaw yug: Popowo, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska
  • Homepage: https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=117455
  • Kuj Paub Li: Lech Walesa
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Lech Wałęsa Movies

  • 2023
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    Gazprom - Die perfekte Waffe

    Gazprom - Die perfekte Waffe

    8 2023 HD

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  • 1981
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    Narodziny Solidarności

    Narodziny Solidarności

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1991
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    Człowiek ze studni

    Człowiek ze studni

    1 1991 HD

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  • 2023
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    Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen

    Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen

    8 2023 HD

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  • 2022
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    Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga

    Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga

    9 2022 HD

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  • 2008
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    Gra o Nobla

    Gra o Nobla

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1982
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    Robotnicy '80

    Robotnicy '80

    1 1982 HD

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  • 2007
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    Hammer & Tickle

    Hammer & Tickle

    7.4 2007 HD

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  • 1981
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    Człowiek z żelaza

    Człowiek z żelaza

    6.8 1981 HD

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  • 2000
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    Bajland

    Bajland

    3 2000 HD

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  • 2019
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    Tylko nie mów nikomu

    Tylko nie mów nikomu

    7.5 2019 HD

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  • 2019
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    Meeting Gorbachev

    Meeting Gorbachev

    6.6 2019 HD

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  • 2019
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    Solidarnosc - Der Mauerfall begann in Polen

    Solidarnosc - Der Mauerfall begann in Polen

    7 2019 HD

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  • 2019
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    1979: Urknall der Gegenwart

    1979: Urknall der Gegenwart

    7.5 2019 HD

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  • 2020
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    Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940

    Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940

    6.857 2020 HD

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  • 2011
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    Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...

    Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2011
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    Les Derniers Jours de l'URSS

    Les Derniers Jours de l'URSS

    8 2011 HD

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  • 2005
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    Solidarność, Solidarność...

    Solidarność, Solidarność...

    6 2005 HD

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  • 2017
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    Wałęsa według Wałęsy

    Wałęsa według Wałęsy

    1 2017 HD

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  • 1999
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    La Foi du siècle

    La Foi du siècle

    8.5 1999 HD

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  • 1995
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    Goldene Henne

    Goldene Henne

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

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  • 1998
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    Alpha Forum

    Alpha Forum

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1999
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    Maybrit Illner

    Maybrit Illner

    8 1999 HD

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  • 2019
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    Ingemann og Jerntæppets fald

    Ingemann og Jerntæppets fald

    1 2019 HD

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