Lech Walesa is a Polish statesman, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. An electrician who became leader of the opposition Solidarity trade union, he led the pro-democratic effort that ended Communist rule in Poland in 1989, and became the first democratically elected Polish president since 1922 and the first Polish president elected by popular vote.
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Lech Walesa (born 29 September 1943) 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 1922 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote.
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Lech Walesa (born 29 September 1943)
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An electrician who became leader of the opposition Solidarity trade union, he led the pro-democratic effort that ended Communist rule in Poland in 1989, and became the first democratically elected Polish president since 1922 and the first Polish president elected by popular vote.
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