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Lech Wałęsa
President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
"Wałęsa" redirects here. For other uses, see Wałęsa (disambiguation).
Lech Wałęsa[a] (Polish pronunciation:[ˈlɛɣvaˈwɛ̃sa]ⓘ; 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 inst
