#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/02/2010 #2

Former Polish president and leader of the Solidarity Trade Union Lech Wałęsa prepares to lay a wreath with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Solidarity movement at the shipyard in Gdansk.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/24/2013 #1

Actress Sharon Stone holds hands with 1983 Nobel Peace Laureate Lech Wałęsa as she received the Peace Summit Award 2013 at the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Warsaw, Poland. Ms. Stone was awarded the prize in recognition of her activities against HIV and AIDS.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/11/2014 #4

German President Joachim Gauck, left, and former Polish president Lech Wałęsa raise hands before balloons of the Light of Border installation are released into the sky during the citizens’ festival at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/29/2016 #5

Followers of former president Lech Wałęsa attend a rally in Gdansk, Poland, Sunday. Several thousand supporters have gathered in front of the Gdansk shipyard, the cradle of Poland’s 1980s Solidarity movement, to back Wałęsa, the former democracy leader and ex-president, who has recently faced renewed allegations of having collaborated with Poland’s communist era secret police.

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#5 Click this link to see Blog page --> 12/09/2018

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/29/2020 #1

Lech Wałęsa, a former president of Poland, leaves after voting at a polling station during the presidential elections. Concerns over democratic standards and basic issues top the agenda as Poles voted in the 1st round of a tight presidential race, with the incumbent, Andrzej Duda, fighting for power for himself, and his rightwing government allies.

He is a hero to me. Imagine the solidarity this one man created to pull an entire country away from the Soviet Union. Lech Wałęsa #LechWalesa MjL

#7 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/14/2020 #2

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/02/2020 #3

Lech Wałęsa, the former Polish president and Nobel peace prize laureate, attends the 40th anniversary of the Gdansk agreement and the Solidarity trade union.

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#9 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/14/2021 #6

In 1980, workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in a job action that resulted in creation of the Solidarity labor movement. #PolandSolidarity #LechWalesa He was a hero to me in spite of Dad’s bluster. (Or perhaps because he was so disdainful of the underdog.)

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#10 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/31/2021 #6

In 1980, Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a seventeen-day strike. #PolandSolidarity #LechWalesa

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#11 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/29/2021 #4

In 1943, Lech Wałęsa was born in Popowo, Poland. #LechWalesa

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#12 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/09/2021 #11

In 1990, Solidarity founder Lech Wałęsa won Poland’s presidential runoff by a landslide. #LechWalesa

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#13 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/22/2021 #11

In 1990, Lech Wałęsa , the founder of the Solidarity trade union, was sworn in as Poland’s first popularly elected president after winning a landslide election victory. #LechWalesa

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#14 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/19/2022 #12

In 1991, Polish President Lech Wałęsa arrived in Washington for his first state visit to the United States. #LechWalesa

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#15 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/02/2025 #1

Gdańsk, Poland • The former Polish president and Nobel peace prize laureate Lech Wałęsa casts his vote in the country’s presidential election.

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