Solidarity & Lech Walesa (10 h 33 m, 11 feb 1992 año – 5 h 39 m, 18 oct 1992 año)
Descripción:
Polish trade union created in 31 August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
- Lech Walesa
A Polish politician, a former trade union and human rights activist, and also a former electrician. He co-founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. The Polish trade union that was the first non - communist trade union in any country in the Warsaw Pact. The union used peaceful civil resistance for workers rights and social change against the oppressive communist government. Allowed partially free elections in Poland to take place in 1989 and after the fall of the Soviet Union, the union's leadership took power in Poland.
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End of the Cold War
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