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Lech Walesa And Us — Poland’s Strange Relationship With Its Revolutionary Hero

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Post date October 26, 2024

Wałęsa earlier this year at a European festival in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany Stefan Sauer/dpa/ZUMA

Any other nation would cultivate the myth of a figure like former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, marginalizing his flaws, errors, and weaknesses. But in Poland, we have marginalized the greatness of a legend, whose modern thinking is relevant in present-day politics, writes Gazeta Wyborcza columnist Magdalena Środa.

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This Happened — August 14: Lech Walesa Leads Shipyard Strikes In Poland

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Post date August 14, 2024

Updated August 14, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. Lech Wałęsa led strikes at the Gdańsk shipyards in Poland on this day in 1980. A Polish electrician and labor activist, he led the movement to protest against the oppressive Communist regime in Poland. What were the key demands of the strikes led by Lech Wałęsa? The strikes […]

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The Train Wreck That Is Poland Right Now

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Post date November 25, 2021

Police forces on the Poland-Belarus border. Sergei Bobylev/TASS/ZUMA

Everything is collapsing: The zloty is sinking, a virus is spreading, diplomacy has disappeared, and so has the rule of law. And the government claims everything is going just fine.

Tags andrzej duda, covid-19, inflation, jaroslaw kaczyinski, lech walesa, poland, zloty

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ISIS Hit In Libya, Brussels on Brexit, Walesa Accused

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Post date February 19, 2016

Somewhere in between Karen Gowen via Instagram

U.S. AIRSTRIKES TARGET ISIS IN LIBYA A predawn U.S. airstrike targeted an ISIS camp in Libya, killing at least 30 members of the terrorist outfit, The New York Times reports. The operation, about 50 miles west of Tripoli, targeted senior Tunisian operative Noureddine Chouchane who is linked to two major terrorist attacks in Tunisia last […]