Good News in History, December 22
25 years ago today, Lech Walesa took the oath as Poland's first popularly elected president. Only a decade earlier he had led Polish workers of the Solidarity movement in a two-month strike, demanding–and winning–the right to organize independent labor unions in the communist country.
Using the slogan, “I don't want to, but I've got no choice,” he won the country’s first election in 63 years to become the first non-Communist president in nearly a half century. (1990)
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