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Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa

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  • Born
    September 29, 1943 · Popowo, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
  • Height
    5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Biography

    • Lech Walesa 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, Walesa became the first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish President elected in popular vote. A shipyard electrician by trade, Walesa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort which in 1989 ended the Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
      - IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao

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  • Spouse
      Miroslawa Danuta Golos(September 8, 1969 - present) (8 children)

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  • President of Poland (1990-1995) Nobel Peace Prize in 1983
  • In phonetic English, his surname is pronounced vah-WENTZ-ah.
  • He and his wife have 8 children, four sons: Bogdan (b. 1970), Slawomir (b. 1972), Przemyslaw (b. 1974), Jaroslaw (b. 1976), and four daughters: Magdalena (b. 1979), Anna (b. 1980), Maria Wiktoria (b. 1982), Brygida (b. 1985).

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