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jan 3, 1989 - Poland and Lech Walesa

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The Communist-led government agreed to meet with Solidarity and together they scheduled free elections for June 1989. In Poland's first free elections in half a century, voters chose as president the electrician from Gdansk, Lech Walesa.

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jan 3, 1989
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~ 36 years ago

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