Wałęsa
Americannoun
noun
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In Poland, Solidarity and Lech Wałęsa walked into the Round Table talks as the uncontested voice of the nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
A better future shimmers on the page when Lech Wałęsa climbs over a fence as an unemployed electrician, taps someone on the shoulder and becomes “the face of the Polish revolution.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
In Poland in 1980, shipyard workers under the leadership of labor activist Lech Wałęsa formed a trade union and went on strike to protest government policies.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Its leader, Lech Wałęsa, never failed to summon the martyrs of Poland’s centurieslong quest for national independence, often in the same breath that he demanded political liberalization.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2020
Solidarity became a broad social movement, led by the electrician Lech Wałęsa, that pressured the regime to engage in talks to negotiate a bloodless end to Communist rule.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
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