Lech Wałęsa (Lech Walesa) and my uncle US citizen Tony Egnatowich in Gdansk

            Lech Wałęsa ( Lech Walesa ), founder of the Solidarność (Solidarity trade union in Poland), former President of the Republic of Poland (RP), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and my uncle US citizen Tony Egnatowich in Gdańsk (Gdansk).

Lech Wałęsa has received hundreds of prizes, honors and awards from many countries of the world. He was named the Time Person of the Year (1981) and one of Time's 100 most important people of the 20th century (1999). He has received over forty honorary degrees, including from Harvard University and Columbia University, as well as dozens of the highest state orders, including: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Knight Grand Cross of the British Order of the Bath, and the French Grand Cross of Legion of Honour. In 1989, Wałęsa was the first foreign non-head of state to ever address the Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress. The Gdansk Lech Wałęsa Airport bears his name since 2004.

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