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The Solidarity Movement leader in Poland was __________.

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Michelle Bachelet
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Lech Walesa
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Augusto Pinochet
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Salvador Allende
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The correct option is A Lech Walesa

The history of Solidarity, a Polish non-governmental trade union, began on 14 August 1980, at the Lenin Shipyards at its founding by Lech Walesa and others. In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, claimed some 9.4 million members. It is considered to have contributed greatly to the fall of communism. Lech Walesa was a labour activist who helped form and led communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity. The charismatic leader of millions of Polish workers, he went on to become the president of Poland. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983.


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