Lech Walesa
Lech Wałęsa ( born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the first democratically elected president of Poland from 1990 to 1995. A shipyard electrician by trade, he became the leader of Solidarity, and led a successful pro-democratic effort which in 1989 ended the communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
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Lech Walesa is known for his role in the documentary Tell No One (2019) as Self.
He is also known for his role in the documentary Meeting Gorbachev (2018) as Self.
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