Category: Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa: ‘Communism’s Days Are Numbered Wherever It Exists’

I sit down with Lech Walesa, the former leader of Solidarity, Poland’s first communist-era independent trade union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and played an instrumental role in Poland’s transition from communism to democracy, becoming the first post-communist president of Poland in 1990. We discuss the end of communism in Poland, the…


PREMIERING NOW: Lech Walesa: ‘Communism’s Days Are Numbered Wherever It Exists’

I sit down with Lech Walesa, the former leader of Solidarity, Poland’s first communist-era independent trade union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and played an instrumental role in Poland’s transition from communism to democracy, becoming the first post-communist president of Poland in 1990. We discuss the end of communism in Poland, the…


PREMIERING 1/21 at 7:30pm ET: Lech Walesa: ‘Communism’s Days Are Numbered Wherever It Exists’

I sit down with Lech Walesa, the former leader of Solidarity, Poland’s first communist-era independent trade union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and played an instrumental role in Poland’s transition from communism to democracy, becoming the first post-communist president of Poland in 1990. We discuss the end of communism in Poland, the…


PREMIERING 7:30pm ET: Lech Walesa: ‘Communism’s Days Are Numbered Wherever It Exists’

I sit down with Lech Walesa, the former leader of Solidarity, Poland’s first communist-era independent trade union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and played an instrumental role in Poland’s transition from communism to democracy, becoming the first post-communist president of Poland in 1990. We discuss the end of communism in Poland, the…