Lech Wałęsa: Media
president of Poland
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Learn how Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union unleashed forces that ended...
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Lech Wałęsa leaving a Gdańsk shipyard
In 1980 Lech Wałęsa helped to found a national federation of unions in Poland under...
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Lech Wałęsa speaking to workers on strike
Lech Wałęsa speaking to striking shipyard workers in Gdańsk, Poland, 1988.
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