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Lech Wałęsa (IPA:[ˈlɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa] (help·info); born September 29, 1943) is a Polish politician an a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (succeeded by Aleksander Kwaśniewski).

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  • Graduates of Middlebury College in Vermont listened to this former president -- of Poland
  • After a 5-year tenure, this Polish president was defeated for re-election in 1995
  • Fired in 1976, in 1980 striking workers got him reinstated at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk
  • In 1983 he won the Nobel Peace Prize; in 2000 he received 1% of the vote in Poland's presidential election
  • In 1967 this future labor leader became an electrician at the shipyards in Gdansk
  • Afraid that Poland would bar his return from Oslo, he received his 1983 prize in absentia
  • This 40-year-old former shipyard electrician won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize
  • December 9, 1990: Poland shows its solidarity, voting this man president in a runoff election
  • In 1990 he won a runoff election against Stanislaw Tyminski to win the presidency of Poland
  • The Nobel committee felt solidarity in awarding the 1983 Peace Prize to this union leader
  • In 1995 Aleksander Kwasniewski defeated this incumbent
  • In 1980 he was recognized as the leader of the Polish trade union Solidarity
  • The Mustache of Solidarity;The Intensive Labor Leader;The Pole of the Electorate
  • When this man won the Peace Prize, the Nobel chairman didn't expect "gratitude from the Polish authorities"

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