Lech Walesa

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 2 days ago
He once championed Poland's fight against authoritarian rule but now Lech Walesa has a struggle on his hands as political rivals and former colleagues shun their former leader in what appears to be an attempt to push to him the margins of history. ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 22 days ago
Lech Walesa whose Solidarity union coordinated strikes in Poland which sent shock waves through the Communist bloc last night backed the US weapons deal. ...

Source: niche2.com --- 7 days ago
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Source: abc.net.au --- 48 days ago
A rare interview with one of the most important figures from 20th Century Europe - Lech Walesa - first broadcast on 4/11/2003 ...

Source: www.hotnews.ro --- 54 days ago
Va spuneam mai demult ca Millennium Bank este o ciudatenie bancara. Ei bine, serialul continua. Din contul fostului presedinte polonez (si lider al Solidaritatii) -Lech Walesa, au disparut circa un sfert de milion de dolari, scrie Dan Popa, pe blogul lui. ...

Source: www.hotnews.ro --- 53 days ago
Aflat in vizita in Australia, Papa a transmis mai multe mii de mesaje enoriasilor care participa la zilele mondiale ale tineretului, relateaza France Info. Generalul Trey Obering sustine ca versiunea imbunatatita a rachetelor Shehab 3 au o raza de actiune de 2.000 de kilometri. Oficialul american considera ca printre tintele Iranului se numara tari precum Grecia, Serbia, Belarus si Romania... ...

Source: www.publico.es --- 57 days ago
Historiadores acusan al líder de Solidaridad y Premio Nobel de la Paz de haber sido un agente de la policía comunista ...

Source: ykien0711.blogvis.com --- 59 days ago
Vân Anh, thông tín viên đài RFA 2008-07-06 ...

Source: pr.euractiv.com --- 17 days ago
Bearing in mind the risks for Poland’s allies in the Caucasus, Georgia above all, Warsaw’s recognition of the Kosovo Albanians’ secession was described as an irresponsible move by Nobel Peace laureate and former Polish president, Lech Walesa. “Recognizing Kosovo will bring nothing but trouble. No one can be denied the right to self-determination, but only [...]  ...

Source: www.volksfreund.de --- 6 days ago
Hoher Besuch steht der Region ins Haus: Lech Walesa besucht im September Rheinland-Pfalz und kommt unter anderem auch ins Kloster Machern und nach Bernkastel-Kues. Bekannt wurde der ehemalige Danziger Werftarbeiter als Gründer der freien Gewerkschaft Solidarnosc (Solidarität). ...

Source: www.guysen.com --- 24 days ago
« La Russie a perdu parce qu'elle avait exaspéré le monde entier et il semble qu'elle revienne à ses vieilles méthodes (soviétiques) » a-t-il déclaré précisant que « l'Europe (...) a agi fiévreusement et fait preuve de son incapacité à être organisée, et les Etats-Unis se sont révélés impuissants et inefficaces ». (Guysen.International.News) ...

Source: amerisrael.typepad.com --- 15 days ago
Lech Walesa, the former leader of the Solidarity movement that helped bring Poland out of communism has spoken out on the danger of Kosovo Independence: "Recognizing Kosovo will bring nothing but trouble. No one can be denied the right to self-determination, but only within the bounds of common sense." Walesa also charged Kosovo Islamic separatists of irresponsible behavior in that two thirds of Serbs have been driven out and those remaining have been forced into ghettos while hundreds of churches have been destroyed. Kosovo was "with its irresponsible behavior, causing new divisions in Europe and globally and undermining international relations," Walesa said Earlier Walesa voiced his support for the U.S. Missile Shield in Poland: "I have always supported the shield in Poland. I'm glad that the thing is finalised now. There are so many weapons on the planet that the Earth could be destroyed 10 times over." Think about what could happen if the jihadist Ayatollahs in Iran are successful in getting a nuke. And that could happen in five months. Julia Gorin of Republican Riot weighs in on how the irresponsible actions of NATO, and the International Community, provided the Kremlin with the perfect pretext for Russia's actions in Georgia, with her response to Monica Crowley. Gorin cited this Munich-Analogy from Crowley: "When Nazi Germany seized control of Czechoslovakia in 1938, appeaser extraordinaire Neville Chamberlain referred to it as ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 36 days ago
Former Polish President Lech Walesa, left, enters the courtroom before testifying in the trial of Gen. ...

Source: www.democracyforum.co.uk --- 67 days ago
Edward Lucas of the Economist writing (http://edwardlucas.blogspot.com/2008/06/Lech-walesa_29.html)on ex-President and former heroic leader Lech Walesa and the swirling passions around his political record. (Yes, Mr Lucas is right - Mr Walesa was not a very good president. In fact, he was a disaster but that is probably because he was not a suitable person for that post and past record as heroic trade union leader is not necessarily an adequate qualification.) The problem is only partly a matter of not being able to understand human frailty as Mr Lucas says - these messy situations are bound to arise if lustration is to continue. Those who have been calling for full lustration have largely ignored one of the most important aspects of Communism. It deliberately involved everyone in the system. Nobody was allowed to stay outside it as long as they kept quiet as it would be possible in an ordinary autocracy. Lenin was much influenced by Sergei Nechayev in his political thinking. Nechayev's idea (never fully worked out in practice) was just that - involve everyone in the bloodletting. There can be no innocent victims. More... (http://brugesgroup.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-on-Lech-Walesa.html) ...

Source: www.parceria.nl --- 67 days ago
Dois historiadores lançam livro em que acusam o antigo dirigente grevista e ex-presidente da Polônia de espionagem para o serviço secreto do país na década de 1970, época do regime comunista. ...

Source: sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com --- 17 days ago
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions. When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices. To control the free flow of information, the Communists would have to increase the secret police by a factor of four. It would be a huge effort for police to control the channels you get on TV or the phone numbers you are allowed to dial. So technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside. It was possible to get news from independent sources; stations like the BBC (British Broadcasting System) and VOA (Voice of America) were beyond government control. During '50s and '60s, the Communist government put people accused of listening to these stations in prison. -- Lech Walesa (Interview with Wired, June 2002) True or false? What about the situation in China? ...

Source: www.x-cafevn.org --- 58 days ago
Nhưng điều làm dư luận sôi sục hơn cả là vào những năm 90, khi được bầu làm Tổng thống đầu tiên của Ba Lan không cộng sản, Wałęsa đã không đủ nghị lực để thổ lộ với dư luận về quá khứ đen tối của mình, và chính vì thế quá khứ của Wałęsa luôn như một trái bom nổ chậm. Nguy hiểm tới nỗi với tư cách tổng thống, ông phải hành động theo lô-gíc của kẻ thù cũ, cố ý đi ngược lại các quy định về bảo vệ tài sản lịch sử để thủ tiêu các tang chứng về quá khứ liên lụy cộng sản của mình. read more ...

Source: jaron.salon24.pl --- 66 days ago
  TYTUŁY PRASOWE NA ZACHODZIE Book Reawakens Doubts About Polish Hero Walesa   Nowa książka to jest mieszanie się w stare debaty o Polsce:  Czy bohater przywódca "Solidarności"demokratycznej Lech... ...