21. Biografías De Líderes Políticos CIDOB: Lech Walesa (Polonia) Breve biograf­a sobre este pol­tico del pa­s. http://www.cidob.org/bios/castellano/lideres/w-004.htm

Lech Walesa Polonia De nombre completo Leszek ("Lech") Walesa * 29 de septiembre de 1943, Popowo, voivodato de Kujawsko-Pomprskie. S u abuelo paterno luchó en el Ejército nacional del mariscal Pilsudski durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y sus padres eran campesinos con algunas propiedades que durante la ocupación nazi tuvieron que trabajar para granjeros alemanes. El padre, que antes de la guerra ganaba ingresos adicionales como carpintero, se hallaba en un campo de trabajo por negarse a delatar a su hermano partisano cuando su cuarto hijo nació en 1943. Cuando el padre falleció en 1945 coincidiendo con la llegada del Ejército soviético, el tío de Walesa se desposó con su cuñada, una católica devota, y se hizo cargo de la familia, a la que sumaron tres nuevos vástagos. El surgimiento de un líder obrero El joven Walesa pasó su infancia entre estrecheces económicas. Tras completar con buenas calificaciones sus estudios primarios, entre 1959 y 1961 aprendió metalurgia, dibujo técnico y matemáticas en una escuela de oficios de Lipno, donde se especializó como electricista industrial. Consiguió el empleo de instalador de sistemas eléctricos en el Departamento Estatal de Agricultura (POM), en Lenie, y en 1963 interrumpió este trabajo para prestar el servicio militar, en el curso del cual fue destinado al cuerpo de telegrafistas y se dejó crecer el poblado bigote que luego le haría famoso. Tras licenciarse volvió a su empleo en el POM, pero en 1967 decidió marchar a la costa báltica en busca de mejores oportunidades de trabajo. Se colocó en la plantilla de los astilleros Lenin de Gdansk como obrero en una brigada de electricistas y en 1968 recibió su bautismo sindical al ser elegido por sus compañeros representante en el consejo de empresa.

22. WALESA, LECH International forfatterbibliografi. http://www.bibliografi.dk/walesa_lech.htm

A B C D ... Z WALESA, LECH født 29. september 1943 i Polen. Præsident i Polen. "Håbets vej" ("Un chemin d'espoir") Gyldendal : 1987 Gyldendals Bogklub : 1987 kilder: Dansk Bogfortegnelse, 1976-

23. Colby Magazine, Winter '99: Lech Walesa Speaks lech walesa, the shipyard electrician and Solidarity labor leader who became Poland's first democratically elected president, held the rapt attention of an overflow crowd in Cotter Union on December http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/88n1/hill/2.html

Lech Walesa, the shipyard electrician and Solidarity labor leader who became Poland's first democratically elected president, held the rapt attention of an overflow crowd in Cotter Union on December 7. Speaking through interpreter Magda Iwinska, Walesa said a "century of crime and hatred," which saw tragedies on the scale of the Holocaust and Stalinism, is giving way to what he hopes will be "a century of solidarity," featuring pluralism, open borders and the opportunity for stable peace. Asked about the legacy of communism in Poland he said, "Polish communists were just like radishes. They were red only on the outside." Walesa's appearance generated the largest audience of any speaker in recent years. When the Page Commons Room was full, students jammed into the Fishbowl, Lovejoy 100 and various other campus locations to watch Walesa's speech on closed circuit television. Audio Clips of Walesa's Speach On Gloablism On Russia On Solidarity On Changing Century This page uses real audio, the RealAudio player is available from www.real.com

24. CNN Cold War - Profile: Lech Walesa lech walesa, Born September 29, 1943, in Popowo, Poland, lech walesawas the son of a carpenter. He attended primary and vocational http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/walesa/

This site is best viewed with a 4.0 browser and requires javascript Born September 29, 1943, in Popowo, Poland, Lech Walesa was the son of a carpenter. He attended primary and vocational school before taking up the position of electrical engineer in the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, in 1967. In 1970, when the shipyards were the center of huge and violent demonstrations against the government's decision to increase food prices, Walesa was among the demonstrators. Six years later, Walesa was fired from his job when he not only protested the Gierek government's raise in food prices, but emerged as an anti-government union activist. He turned to the Workers Defense Committee (KOR), an underground intellectual group established to help the families of workers fired because of the protests, and became increasingly involved in their activities as a dissident. Walesa was arrested several times between 1976 and 1980 for his dissident activities. In 1981 however, Defense Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski was appointed prime minister in a year of increasing social unrest and dissatisfaction in Poland. In December, martial law was imposed and Solidarity was outlawed. Walesa was arrested, and for the next seven years he was either under arrest, watched closely by secret police or harassed. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, Walesa had his wife accept the award for him in Oslo, fearing that authorities would not allow him back into Poland if he left. By December 1988 it was clear that the unrest, social dissatisfaction and economic conditions could not continue without change. At the conclusion of the 10th plenary session of the Communist Party, the party invited the still-illegal and large opposition Solidarity movement to join in talks beginning in February 1989. These talks, which became known as the "roundtable talks," lasted for 59 days, with 13 working groups in 94 sessions.

25. Walesa, Lech walesa, lech. lech walesa speaking to striking shipyard workers in Gdansk, Poland,1988. Copyright Wesolowski/Sygma. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Book of lech walesa, trans. http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/629_24.html

Walesa, Lech Lech Walesa speaking to striking shipyard workers in Gdansk, Poland, 1988 [Video] (b. Sept. 29, 1943, Popowo, near Wloclawek, Pol.), labour activist who helped form and led (1980-90) communist Poland's first independent trade union, Solidarity . The charismatic leader of millions of Polish workers, he went on to become the president of Poland (1990-95) and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983. Mieczyslaw Jagielski, Poland's first deputy premier, signed an agreement conceding to the workers the right to organize freely and independently. As the leader of the now-underground Solidarity movement, Walesa was subjected to constant harassment until collapsing economic conditions and a new wave of labour unrest in 1988 forced Poland's government to negotiate with him and other Solidarity leaders. These negotiations led to an agreement that restored Solidarity to legal status and sanctioned free elections for a limited number of seats in the newly restored upper house of the Sejm (Parliament). Solidarity won an overwhelming majority of those seats in June 1989, and after Walesa refused to form a coalition government with the communists, the Parliament was forced to accept a Solidarity-led government, though Walesa himself refused to serve as premier. Walesa helped his Solidarity colleague Tadeusz Mazowiecki become premier of this government in 1989, but he ran against Mazowiecki for president in 1990 and won Poland's first direct presidential election by a landslide. As president, Walesa helped guide Poland through its first free parliamentary elections (1991) and watched as successive ministries converted Poland's state-run economy into a free-market system. Walesa had displayed remarkable political skills as the leader of Solidarity, but his plain speech, his confrontational style, and his refusal to approve a relaxation of Poland's strict new prohibitions on abortion eroded his popularity late in his term as president. In 1995 he sought reelection but was narrowly defeated by the former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski, head of the Democratic Left Alliance.

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more or less heroes Lech Walesa more heroes less killers ... home hero file Lech Walesa Country: Poland. Cause: Liberation of Poland from communist regime. Background: Sandwiched between Germany and Russia, Poland is under constant threat of invasion from the time of its formation in the middle of the 10th Century. The country's borders expand and contract dramatically over the centuries as regions are either annexed by or won back from its neighbours. Following the First World War, Poland achieves an uneasy and short-lived independence that is shattered when Germany invades on 1 September 1939, starting the Second World War. At the end of the war the country falls behind the Soviet Union's 'Iron Curtin', becoming a satellite state of the superpower. A pro-Soviet communist government is installed. Popular dissent mounts as the Polish economy begins to falter. When the Soviet Union begins to break apart the Polish people seize the opportunity to again achieve their independence. More background Mini biography: Born on 29 September 1943 in Popowo, near Wloclawek, Poland, into a working class family.

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NATION WORLD BUSINESS ARTS ... CURRENT ISSUE CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI/AP Walesa toasts to his hopeful victory during a presidential campaign meeting with his supporters in Warsawon on Oct. 29, 1995 Lech Walesa Poland's brash union organizer stood up to the Kremlin and dealt the Eastern bloc a fatal blow By TIMOTHY GARTON ASH Intro: Our Century ... and the Next One 21st Century: The Shape of the Future Monday, April 13, 1998 Lech Walesa, the fly, feisty, mustachioed electrician from Gdansk, shaped the 20th century as the leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Poles out of communism. It is one of history's great ironies that the nearest thing we have ever seen to a genuine workers' revolution was directed against a so-called workers' state. Poland was again the icebreaker for the rest of Central Europe in the "velvet revolutions" of 1989. Walesa's contribution to the end of communism in Europe, and hence the end of the cold war, stands beside those of his fellow Pole, Pope John Paul II, and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. David Ben-Gurion Ho Chi Minh Winston Churchill Mohandas Gandhi ... V.I. Lenin

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NATION WORLD BUSINESS ARTS ... CURRENT ISSUE CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI/AP Walesa toasts to his hopeful victory during a presidential campaign meeting with his supporters in Warsawon on Oct. 29, 1995 Lech Walesa Poland's brash union organizer stood up to the Kremlin and dealt the Eastern bloc a fatal blow By TIMOTHY GARTON ASH Intro: Our Century ... and the Next One 21st Century: The Shape of the Future Monday, April 13, 1998 Lech Walesa, the fly, feisty, mustachioed electrician from Gdansk, shaped the 20th century as the leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Poles out of communism. It is one of history's great ironies that the nearest thing we have ever seen to a genuine workers' revolution was directed against a so-called workers' state. Poland was again the icebreaker for the rest of Central Europe in the "velvet revolutions" of 1989. Walesa's contribution to the end of communism in Europe, and hence the end of the cold war, stands beside those of his fellow Pole, Pope John Paul II, and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. David Ben-Gurion Ho Chi Minh Winston Churchill Mohandas Gandhi ... V.I. Lenin

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NATION WORLD BUSINESS ARTS ... CURRENT ISSUE The next phase in Walesa's political career was more controversial. Angered by the fact that his former intellectual advisers were now running the country in cooperation with the former communists, he declared a "war at the top" of Solidarity. "I don't want to, but I must," he insisted. Fighting a populist campaign against his own former adviser, he was elected Poland's first noncommunist President, a post he held until 1995. Some people liked his stalwart, outspoken style. Others found him too undignified to be the new democracy's head of state. Brilliant as a people's tribune, he stumbled over long formal speeches. You never felt he was quite comfortable in the role. When he stayed with the British Queen at Windsor Castle, he characteristically quipped that the bed was so big, he couldn't find his wife. Dec. 29, 1980 Jan. 4, 1982 Larger Cover Larger Cover document.write(""); The Secret Life of Bees By: Sue Monk Kidd The Teeth of the Tiger By: Tom Clancy Life of Pi By: Yann Martel Albert Einstein as it seemed.

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34. CNN.com - Lech Walesa Cleared Of Being Communist Spy - August 11, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/11/poland.walesa.03/index.html

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35. CNN Cold War - Interviews: Lech Walesa lech walesa became chairman of Poland s first independent trade union, Solidarity,after leading the historic 1980 Lenin shipyard strike and a wave of http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/19/interviews/walesa/

This site is best viewed with a 4.0 browser and requires javascript The pope's visit in 1979 was like a gift from God. It fit ideally with our fight against this terrible communist system, based on lies, falsehoods and manipulation. I had been wondering how could I get a bite at communism. I was in charge of the shipyard strike in 1970, and we lost it. So when I was leaving the shipyard I said to myself: 'God, give me the strength to come back here and conquer communism.' I said to the gentlemen who came to arrest me, 'Gentlemen, this is the moment of your defeat. You just hammered the last nails in the coffin of communism.' The communist rulers underestimated the sophistication of their own people. Who knew that you do not win with rolling tanks, but that the secret of victory lies in coordinated political action? Lech Walesa became chairman of Poland's first independent trade union, Solidarity, after leading the historic 1980 Lenin shipyard strike and a wave of subsequent protests against the communist government. In 1981, martial law was imposed and Solidarity was outlawed, but Walesa continued leading the movement underground. He received the Nobel Peace Price in 1983. After the fall of the communist government in 1990, he became president of Poland, a post he held until 1995. Lech Walesa was interviewed for COLD WAR in June 1997. These excerpts have been translated from Polish. On the origins of Polish anti-communism: After [World War II] we found ourselves in a Soviet orbit against our will. It was a betrayal, and the nation could not agree to this. They could not agree to the new system. We tried to change it in '56, '70, and '76 and each time the people improved their fighting. So we came to the conclusion that the best way to attack communism is "through bread to freedom." And the Pope's visit in 1979 was like a gift from God. It fit ideally with our fight against this terrible communist system, based on lies, falsehoods and manipulation. This gift of God let us once regain the trust in the basic values: the power of truth, the power of freedom. Eventually this made the system collapse. Of course, in practical terms we achieved this by organizing trade unions, hoping that this would lead us to the victory.

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