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Lech Wałęsa
Homepage
https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=117455
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1943-09-29,Popowo, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

In the Grip of Gazprom

8

In the Grip of Gazprom
2023-02-07

The Birth of Solidarity

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The Birth of Solidarity
1981-05-01

Człowiek ze studni

0

Człowiek ze studni
1991-01-01

Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen

8

Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen
2023-06-03

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga

9

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga
2022-05-07

0

Gra o Nobla
2008-01-01

0

Workers '80
1982-02-12

Hammer & Tickle

7.4

Hammer & Tickle
2007-01-08

6.8

Man of Iron
1981-07-27

3

Bajland
2000-11-24

7.5

Tell No One
2019-05-11

Meeting Gorbachev

6.583

Meeting Gorbachev
2019-05-03

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

7

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
2019-10-01

1979: Big Bang of the Present

7.5

1979: Big Bang of the Present
2019-12-10

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

6.857

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
2020-02-18

Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...

0

Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...
2011-03-11

The Last Days of the USSR

8

The Last Days of the USSR
2011-12-12

Solidarność, Solidarność...

6

Solidarność, Solidarność...
2005-08-31

Wałęsa by Wałęsa

0

Wałęsa by Wałęsa
2017-04-30

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

8.5

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999-10-06

0

Goldene Henne
1995-01-01

8.5

Apostrophes
1975-01-10

0

Alpha Forum
1998-01-07

8

Maybrit Illner
1999-10-21

Ingemann og Jerntæppets fald

0

Ingemann og Jerntæppets fald
2019-11-05