Lech Wałęsa Timeline of Events

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Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 95.Wałęsa was an electrician by trade, with no higher education...

Timeline of Events

1980

8.14.1980

Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.

1982

11.12.1982

Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.

11.14.1982

Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.