Lech Wałęsa
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You can’t change the facts with your lies, allegations and counterfeits
— Being accused of being an agent for the Soviet era communist police, quoted on New Europe (February 18, 2016), "Poland’s former president
Lech Wałęsa
President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)
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Born 1943 · age 83
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An electrician who led striking shipyard workers into history — then carried the momentum all the way to the presidency. Wałęsa turned a labor revolt at Gdańsk into the lever that toppled Communist Poland and set off dominoes across the Eastern Bloc.
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Born in 1943, Wałęsa worked at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, where his trade-union activism got him fired in 1976, surveilled, and arrested repeatedly. In August 1980 he negotiated the Gdańsk Agreement after strikes paralyzed the coast, then co-founded Solidarity — a movement that swelled past ten million members. Martial law drove it underground and put him back in custody, but he kept organizing from the margins. By 1989 he was central to the Round Table talks that produced semi-free elections and a Solidarity-led government, closing the book on four decades of Communist rule. He won Poland'…
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Lech Wałęsa
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I am convinced that Germany has drawn conclusions [from World War II] and Europe has drawn conclusions as well. And I can say an unpopular thing.
— Jarosław Kurski: Lech Wałęsa: democrat or dictator?, Westview Press, 1993, p. 59 and p. 166:
Lech Wałęsa
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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
— Interview with Oriana Fallaci (22 & 23 February 1981)
Lech Wałęsa
said
Aresztowano mnie wiele razy. Za pierwszym razem, w grudniu 1970 roku, podpisałem 3 albo 4 dokumenty.
— I was arrested many times. The first time, in December 1970, I signed 3 or 4 documents. Most probably I'd sign anything then, except
Lech Wałęsa
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Można powiedzieć, że byłem gdzieś niezręczny, może nawet kogoś wsypałem, ale nie to, że byłem agentem.
— One could say I was goofy somewhere, and maybe even outed someone, but not that I was an agent. Not that I wanted to betray anybody. (...)
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