Lech Walesa resigns from Solidarity - Democratic Underground

struggle4progress

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Tue Apr-12-05 06:41 PM
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Lech Walesa resigns from Solidarity

... “We've grown apart. We are no longer a good team. I have taken the decision today that we have to separate. We will do it without bitterness, after the ceremonies” in August to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of Solidarity, Walesa said on news television station TVN24 ...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12841177-23109,00.html

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LostinVA

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Tue Apr-12-05 06:43 PM
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1. Mixed feelings about Walesa

The Solidarity movement was terrific and courageous, but he has done some very questionable, right wind things, including being quite anti semitic.

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Alpharetta

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Tue Apr-12-05 10:14 PM
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2. He is a hero but a failed politician

He brought down the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union.

The oppressed everywhere should view him as an example of how workers can overthrow tyrants who abuse them. US workers should take note.

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