Category: President of Poland

• Lech Walesa, Founder of the Solidarity Trade Union, is Sworn in as Poland’s 1st Popularly Elected President. December 22, 1990.

  Image: Lech Walesa in 1996. (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 22, 1990, Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity trade union, is sworn in as Poland’s 1st popularly elected president. Walesa was a labor activist who helped form and lead (1980-1990) communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity. He received the Nobel Prize…

  December 22, 2023

  1990s, History Daily, Lech Walesa, President of Poland, Solidarity

  1990s, History Daily, Lech Walesa, President of Poland, Solidarity Trade Union