The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces that it has awarded the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize to Lech Walesa; a labor activist who helped form and lead communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity, from 1980 to 1990. Walesa became the first popularly elected president of Poland in 1990. View all Nobel Peace Prizes
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