Question

Who was Lech Walesa? How did he become famous in Poland?

Answer 1

Lech Walesa was an electrician, a trade union activist and a human rights fighter and a politician.

He founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.

He was an electrician who worked at the Gdansk shipyard in Poland.

He organized the independent workers union Solidarity,in opposition to the Communist government work policies and practices in Poland in the 1980s.