Lech Wałęsa

President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)

Polish trade union federation evolved into broad anti-authoritarian social movement

airport in Gdańsk, Poland

1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda

political party

thumb|Lech Wałęsa, 1990 Wałęsisms, also known in Poland as , are expressions uttered by or ascribed to Lech Wałęsa, the first President of post-Communist Poland. Before that he was an ordinary electrician, who became the leader of the Solidarity movement, which destroyed the Communist rule in Poland. Many of wałęsisms had become a well-established part of Polish culture.