Lech Walesa, A Portrait
Walesa stayed close to his country roots, even throughout his rise to power. Those roots lay at the heart of his enormous success, but were also the source of the criticism from his opponents. He managed to combine the sober voice of reason, which elevated him above the rest, with a frankness that beggared belief. When Lech Walesa became a strike leader in the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland in 1980, ten million people soon joined him.
