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The Gorby 80 Gala at the Royal Albert Hall in London

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Gorby 80 Gala At The Royal Albert Hall - Arrivals

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Poland's anti-communist icon Walesa, at last the movie

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Protesters mass in the streets of Poland's Baltic port city of Gdansk, hurling Molotov cocktails at security forces as a tank advances -- and the cameras roll. Looking on is celebrated Polish director Andrzej Wajda , 85, whose latest film is a biopic about Lech Walesa , the communist-era Solidarity opposition leader who left an indelible mark on world history by helping bring down the Iron Curtain. "I'm playing the role of a resident of Gdansk. I have to run as the cops and the ZOMO riot...Read Full Story

Huge News!! Polish Freedom Fighter Lech Walesa sides with American Tea Party over Anti-American Occupy Wall Street

By ericdondero on | From libertarianrepublican.net

Tipped off on OWS's socialism by Illinois libertarian-conservative by Eric Dondero This can only be seen as a huge victory for the Pro-Capitalist Tea Party and a massive defeat for the Socialist Occupy Wall Streeters. It's also a personal victory for top Illinois Tea Partyer Adam Andrzejewski. LR readers may recall that Andrzejewski was the Tea Party candidate in the GOP primary for Governor in 2010. He lost the primary to conservative downstate Senator Kevin Brady. (Lech Walesa traveled to...Read Full Story

Lech Walesa Unveile Statue of Ronald Reagan in Warsaw

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From: Thenews.pl :: News from Poland Walesa unveils one more for the 'Gipper' 21.11.2011 13:26 Lech Walesa said that there would not be a free Poland without Ronald Reagan, during the unveiling of a statue in Warsaw of the late American president on Monday. photo - PAP/Andrzej Hrechorowicz The former Solidarity leader said that “as a participant in these events,” it was “inconceivable” that such changes would have come about without the last American president during the post-1945 cold-war...Read Full Story

Lech Walesa : Without a Facebook? Impossible!

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Aleksander Kwasniewski and Lech Walesa, an online model for the rest of the politicians Presidents were active on the Internet. Former presidents of Poland can be a model for all in terms of Internet use. Both Aleksander Kwasniewski and Lech Walesa enjoy the benefits of the network for several years. It would seem that our politicians are moving very poorly in an online reality. Not yet belong to a generation that does not remember a world without network, and start using computers was...Read Full Story

Special Report: Solidarity in the Arab Spring

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WARSAW ( Reuters ) - Lech Walesa chuckles as he recounts a conversation he had in April with reformers in Tunisia , cradle of the Arab Spring. "They told me they want to purge everybody linked to the old regime," says the former shipyard electrician who brought democracy to his native Poland in 1989 as head of the Solidarity trade union. "I asked, 'How many's that?' and they said '2.3 million people.' "'That makes no sense,' I said. 'That will mean civil war. You should just convict the worst...Read Full Story

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Lech Walesa Receives The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Leadership Award 2012...

Former Polish President Lech Walesa is honored to be the recipient of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Leadership 2012 Award presented by Carla Knowroski at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. Madonna H.S. Alumni Bernie LaRocco, Sharon Colianni, Renata ...

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Former Polish leader Lech Walesa tours Lincoln Presidential Museum

At a ceremony in Walesa’s honor Thursday night in Chicago, Carla Knorowski, CEO of the Abraham Lincoln ... of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois. *W. James Farrell, the retired chairman of Illinois Tool Works. Farrell also is chairman ...

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Former Polish president Lech Walesa in Chicago

Former Polish president Lech Walesa is in Chicago to receive the Lincoln Leadership Prize.

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Lech Walesa honored in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD - Wednesday, the Illinois General Assembly passed a House Joint Resolution 58, honoring Polish freedom hero Lech Walesa and distinguishing February 9, 2012 as Lech Walesa Day in Illinois. The resolution's wording is as follows: WHEREAS, His Excellency Lech...

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Lech Walesa to receive Lincoln prize in Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) Former Polish president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is to receive an award in Chicago from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. Walesa is scheduled to receive the Lincoln Leadership Award on Thursday, Feb. 9,

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