Walesa

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• While he was president, Lech Walesa visited the monastery frequently and wore an image of the Black Madonna on his lapel.

  Academic text (2000)

• Here, Lech Walesa, who had first come to prominence in 1976, became the charismatic leader.

  Academic text (1991)

• Like Lech Walesa and the striking shipyard workers.

  Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

• One segment of Solidarity, led by the National Committee, supported the government, and Siec backed Walesa.

  Academic text (1998)

• In a similar fashion, Havel, Walesa, and others laid the political foundations for Eastern Europe's post-communist course.

  Academic text (2006)

• In Poland, the ample number of conflicts was fostered by the authoritative style of the former president, Lech Walesa.

  Academic text (1999)

• The basic premise of the Polish negotiations, shared by all sides, Jaruzelski no less than Walesa, was that Solidarity represented society and spoke in its name.

  Academic text (1991)

• Most notably, Lech Walesa, the movement's leader and Poland's first president, has retreated to splendid isolation in Gdansk.

  Academic text (2006)

• In early September, Cardinal Wyszynski met for the first time with Solidarity's leader Lech Walesa, and from September 24 to the end of the year, a joint commission of the bishops and the government met eighty-one times.

  Academic text (1999)

• Lech Walesa, the co-founder of Solidarity, became the first democratically elected president of Poland.

Synonyms

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Lech Walesa

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Polish labour leader who co-founded Solidarity and was president of Poland from 1990 to 1995

notes former presidency without specifying the exact years in office

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Etymology