Leh Valens Biography

Leh Valens. The charismatic leader who collaborated with the special services. Which Valence is actually - we understand our article. Leh Valens is a charismatic folk leader. A symbol of a bloodless and successful struggle against the communist regime. Lech - as he is called, is already eighty, but the passions around his personality are not subsided today. He never denies himself the pleasure of saying something unexpected.

In one of the recent interviews, for example, he stated that he had to divorce his wife, who had been who had lived for more than a dozen years, because she did not love him for a long time. But he will not divorce - because he believes in God. Probably there is no Poles who would not know his face with the famous magnificent mustache. Many also know that Lech and Danu raised eight children.

Over the years, however, from a thin worker, Valens has turned into a fat policy. Some sincerely adore him, others hate fiercely. I talk about it right away so that no one thought that you can maintain objectivity when you write about Valens. My attitude towards him is emotional swing: sometimes I admire them, sometimes I can’t stand it. A symbol of the “Solidarity” movement and changes, which in the year led to the fall of the communist system in Poland.

He, a simple electrician, happened to perform in the American Congress and get a reward from the hands of Queen Elizabeth II. The narrative of him inevitably affects the most important events of modern Polish history. Youth and the Gdan shipyard Lech Valens was born in the village of Popovo during the Second World War, September 29. He was the fourth child in the poor peasant family of Felix and Vladislav.

Valensa's father died two years after the birth of his son. Lech studied from the hands badly. I practically did not read books by his own admission. Valensa graduated from college, having received a specialty in the field of agricultural mechanization. At first he got a job at a rural machine-tractor station, then by an electrician at the Gdan shipyard.

This is of great importance: the worker opposed the communist power, which allegedly showed a special concern for the fate of the working class. However, it was on the Polish coast of the Baltic States and to be precise - the party leader Vladislav Gomulk in December ordered the workers of the shipyard to them. Paris Commune in GDYN, protesting against raising meat prices.

Valens then was one of the leaders of the strike at the Gdan shipyard. In the year he was fired for criticizing state trade unions. In the second half of the X Valens, he was already an ardent oppositionist. He collaborated with the underground Committee of Public Self -Defense - Kor, consisted of opposition free trade unions of the coast. When a strike began at the Gdansk shipyard in August, Valens jumped over the fence of the shipyard.

This event acquired a symbolic character: Leh Valens fell into the territory of the enterprise from which he was fired several years ago, and again became the head of the strike. Soon, advisers, outstanding Polish intellectuals joined the workers. The expert commission was headed by Tadeusz Mazovetsky, a well -known Catholic figure. In the years-Prime Minister of Poland.

As a result of the strike, the authorities had to sign August agreements containing 21 requirements, in particular - the creation of independent trade unions, restriction of censorship, the introduction of non -working Saturdays, the cancellation of privileges for police and security officers, the introduction of meat coupons until a market balance is restored. Leh Valens signs documents.

He completed the decade of propaganda of the success of Edward Gerek, as a result of the policy of which the state has accumulated serious debts. The indignation of the Poles for the lack of goods in stores grew. The courage to the population of the country also gave the election of the Pole to the Papal throne. John Pavel II began a pontificate in the year.

Today, many criticize him for mistakes, for example, in matters of morality, but then he was a reliable stronghold of the anti -communist opposition. The carnival and hopelessness in Poland was called “carnival”: it was a time of joy and political freedom. People openly declared their anti -communist beliefs, strikes continued. Censorship was no longer so rigid, the newspapers published more truth than before.

And, most importantly, an independent self -governing trade union “Solidarity” was registered, and led Lech Valens, becoming a symbol of this movement. The euphoria time continued until December 13, when General Wojciech Yaruzelsky declared martial law. The figures of "solidarity", including Lech Valens, were interned. The authorities tried to persuade Valens to cooperation, but he refused.

In the year, Lech Valens was awarded the Nobel Prize of the World, which was given on his own in Norway. Valens was afraid that if he went to Oslo, he would not let him go back to Poland. In the eyes of the authorities, the most famous Pole remained a “private face”. For the Communists, he was not only a political enemy, but also a symbol of clericalism.On the lapel of the jacket, Valens always wore an icon with the image of the Virgin Mary.

Wojciech Yaruzelsky, despite the undivided power, was not able to reform the economy. His most wise decision is to negotiate with representatives of the illegal opposition, the indisputable leader of which Lech Valens remained. The time of hopelessness ended in the year. Valens was one of the main negotiators from the opposition and the “solidarity”, which discussed with the government during meetings of the round table, which continued from February to April.

Their result was partially democratic elections held in June. The communists lost them. Everything was the best way-the post of prime minister was occupied by the representative of the opposition Tadeusz Mazovetsky, and the president’s post for political balance-Wojciel Yaruzelsky. Leshek Balcerovich conducted a painful but effective economic reform. Meanwhile, Leh Valens decided to mix the figures on the political chessboard.

The war at the top in the middle of the year of Valens, having learned about disagreements in the ranks of the anti -communist opposition, unleashed the so -called "war at the top." As the chairman of the “solidarity”, he accused the first non -communist government of Poland, led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazovetsky, that reforms are carried out too slowly. In his characteristic emotional manner, Valens said that he would ride a country with an ax and chop thieves.

Actually, it was a conflict between the right and left wing of the opposition, which had recently been closely opposing communism. The camp of "solidarity" split into two warring groups, which was incomprehensible to a significant part of the Poles. Although, in fact, sooner or later it should have happened. However, the swiftness with which the conflict went beyond the limits of "solidarity" was truly shocking.

After all, only a year has passed since the June fracture. In the same year, Leh Valens fought for the presidential chair with Tadeusz Mazovetsky. It was then that on the political scene, from nowhere, it was more accurate that the Polish emigrant Stan Tyminsky appeared from Peru, who built his election campaign at the statement that he was the only “man not from the system”.

Another argument of Tyminsky was that in the black portfolio that he always has with him, a compromise on Valens was assembled. Perhaps this is one of the most ridiculous moments in Polish history of the last thirty years. Stan Tyminsky went to the second round of the presidential election with Lech Valensa. The man defeated the honored Tadeusz of Mazovetsky from nowhere.

The election won Valens. He became the first post -war president, chosen democratically. Our days Lech Valens in a T -shirt with the inscription "Constitution". However, do not forget that Lech Valens also had their own “achievements” in the case of violation of the law. During his reign, in the years, the expression “phadlandization of the law” even appeared - by the name of one of the advisers of Valensa, professor Lech Falandish.

An extraordinary personality, my supervisor at the Faculty of Law of the Warsaw University, and also a master of too creative interpretation of legal norms. An important role in the office of President Valens was played by Lech and Yaroslav Kachinsky. Later, the paths of the brothers and Valens parted, and the Kacinsky became ardent opponents of Valens.

But in the years, the people went to the rhyme, which referred to the proverb of the first years of the existence of the PNR. In the post -war years, they said: "Not a diploma, but the ardor and faith promote the officer." So the promotion in the military sphere of people who could not boast of education was ridiculed, but demonstrated selfless devotion of a new, communist power.

And in years, this proverb was converted into another rhyme: "Not a diploma, but two brothers will help you to choose." I believe that now not all Poles will understand this joke, since few people remember the close ties of Valensa and the Kachinsky brothers. Poland survived so many changes in political unions that some of them today may seem simply incredible.

These are his wise thoughts, logically contradictory and often not very competently formulated. Therefore, funny. Another time, Valensa said: “I am for and even against” “Jestem Za a Nawet Przeciw”. There are numbers to his statements. Many of them were included in the daily speech of the Poles. For Valencisms, the former president has repeatedly received the Silver Strive Awards awarded from the year for extraordinary statements of public figures, mostly politicians.