Lech Walesa is one of the figures who was most ... In the 1980s, Walesa was the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement, the first independent labor union in an Eastern Bloc country.

“The truth is that 50% of the fall of the Wall belongs to John Paul II, 30% to Solidarity and Lech Walesa and only 20% to the rest of the world. That was the truth then and is the truth no ...

In newly declassified diplomatic documents, Polish labor union leader Lech Walesa expressed the ... Kaifu met with Solidarity leader Walesa in Poland, who led the democratization of the formerly ...

The press - and 1980 Thatcher Government - unfairly criticised the trade union movement over its support for the newly formed Polish Solidarity Trade Union ... support - often behind the scenes- for ...

TASS/. Nobel Peace Prize winner, former Polish President Lech Walesa has said he admired Mikhail Gorbachev but never understood his faith in Communism. "We often met. I admired him, although I did ...

Polish democracy champion and former President Lech Walesa says a victory by Republican ... Walesa, 81, played a historic role as leader of Solidarity, a labor union that advocated for workers ...

PARIS, July 10. /TASS/. Poland’s former President Lech Walesa has called on the West not to be limited by liberating Ukraine. France’s Le Figaro on Sunday published fragments on Walesa’s ...