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In 1976, Wałęsa lost his position in Gdańsk Shipyard. General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of martial law on December 13. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. Lech Wałęsa is a devout Roman Catholic, and has said that his faith always helped him during Solidarity's difficult moments.

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He was awarded with the Poland’s highest order, The Order of the White Eagle as well as the Order of Polonia Restituta. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here:

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In the Millennium Declaration, Heads of State and Government identified solidarity as one of the “fundamental values of international relations.”^[5] Mr. Wałęsa received a long applause from the audience after delivering an emotional speech on the impact of the day in human relationships and how his own movement "Solidarność" succeeded in getting support from people from various countries.

Although no longer politically engaged, Wałęsa is still publicly addressed as President. He was unable to receive the prize himself, fearing that the government would not let him back in. In 1988 Wałęsa organized an occupational strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, demanding only the re-legalization of the Solidarity Trade Union. A year later he was appointed the head of the National Executive Committee of the Solidarity Trade Union.

An organiser of the 1988 strike at the Gdańsk Shipyard, in 1989 he was the leader of the opposition during the Round Table Negotiations with the government of the People’s Republic of Poland.

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Kaye, Tony. The Struggle and the Triumph: An Autobiography. New York, NY: Arcade Pub., 1992. However, Poland did make a successful switch from the state controlled to a free market economy and by the end of his term, the economy was booming, one of the healthiest among the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.

In 1983, he applied to return to Gdańsk Shipyard as a simple electrician. On the other hand, he remains the man whose face became for much of the world the symbol of the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of a whole nation, Poland, during much of the 1980s. His life in inseparably connected with the Polish history and Poland’s way to freedom.

Lech Wałęsa was born on 29th October 1943.

“Solidarity” was quickly delegalised and Wałęsa, along with other oppositionists, interned.