Lech Wałęsa Siblings: Meet the Siblings Squad Behind the Polish Politician
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Lech Wałęsa was born on 29 September 1943 in Popowo, near Włocławek, in German-occupied Poland.
He is a Polish labour activist, trade-union leader, politician and statesman who co-founded and led the Solidarity movement, the first independent trade union in a communist country, and later served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.
He is the son of Bolesław Wałęsa, a carpenter who died shortly after the Second World War as a result of wartime forced labour, and Feliksa Wałęsa.
