Lech Walesa, the living legend who freed Poland (and, he would claim, the entire world) from communism, was raised in a poor farming family, received only a basic education and worked as a shipyard ...

The world is at a crossroads and human existence is at stake, Lech Walesa said Tuesday in Simi Valley. The former president of Poland and champion of democracy spoke through an interpreter at the ...

The union leader turned Polish president muses about the shortcomings of democracy and 21st-century leadership.

GDANSK, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, Poland’s former president and the founder of the Solidarity freedom movement, insisted Wednesday that he never collaborated with the communist secret police in the ...

(AP) Solidarity leader Lech Walesa has largely fallen from grace in the eyes of his Polish countrymen. Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrzej Wajda says he wants to restore his longtime friend as Poland’s ...

Cold War hero Lech Wałęsa has condemned the Trump administration’s increasingly hostile stance toward Ukraine. In a message posted to Facebook, Wałęsa, a leader in the 1980s Solidarity campaign that ...

Former Polish president Lech Walesa is in Chicago to receive the Lincoln Leadership Prize. In an exclusive interview, Walesa shared his thoughts on jobs, the global economy, and why on one issue he ...

History’s most consequential heroes aren’t always the most powerful. Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II played important parts in toppling communism. But it was a Polish ...

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