Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) was a Polish politician. He was Poland's first president after the communist era, being the country's head of state during the Third World War.
==Biography==
Lech Wałęsa was born in 29 September 1943 in Popowo; he worked as an electrician and later shipyard worker and was a trade unionist; because of his protests and fight for the common workers, he butted heads with Wojciech Jaruzelski during his dictatorship.
Wałęsa was praised as a hero and a freedom fighter all over the Western Bloc, even winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. After the fall of communism, he was elected Poland's first president. He survived the Third World War thanks to evacuated to Germany in time.
After the war, his government, at first admired, was soon met with critique and disapproval; his mannerisms, persona and poor decisions mocked in politically-charged songs and in opinionated magazines, and because of the shifting opinions towards his government, he lost the democratic elections in 1995 to the left-wing president, Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
==Trivia==
*Wałęsa was going to appear in Breakout, aiding Nicolas Alceste in escaping the Black Dolphin Prison.
Category:Poles