Walesa, 81, played a historic role as leader of Solidarity, a labor union that advocated for workers' rights and greater freedoms during the 1980s, when Poland was still under Soviet-backed communist rule.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his defense of workers' rights and universal freedoms more broadly.

Solidarity ended up playing a crucial role in the peaceful collapse of communism.

Walesa went on to serve one term as president of Poland.

Russia and other authoritarian-led states are getting a better return on the investments to divide America than people buying gold and precious metals - which have no practical utilitarian value should societies actually devolve to the point of bartering.

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It's not a matter of what, it's a matter of who. Those of us old enough have first hand memories of how Walesa united his fellow countrymen through the union Solidarity, who eventually forced the then-Soviet puppet government out of power and into the dustbin of history and was elected President of Poland in his own right.

Back then, supporting Solidarity was a bipartisan staple and if my memory serves correct, when Walesa was able to travel to the US he was feted by Congress as a conquering hero. At my graduation in 1982, Notre Dame bestowed him with an honorary doctorate in absentia.

I'm equally sure as soon as someone tells Trump what he said, he too will unleash an obscene all-caps outburst in his typical 4th grade level English.

Most voters have never heard of him.

Spoken like the historically ignorant ---- you happen to be.

The voters whom Walesa is speaking to know exactly who he is and what his role was in ridding the globe of another self-serving authoritarian tyrant in the same mold as Trump.

Pick up a history book sometimes before spewing such idiocy for all to see. Walesa was one of the most influential people on the planet towards the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

Tony, do you think most voters have heard of this guy?

Ebs, I seldom mince words. Try rereading what I stated:

The voters whom Walesa is speaking to know exactly who he is and what his role was....

Your 4 percent is woefully short. There are 58 million Americans over the age of 65, and I guarantee the majority of THEM remember who and what Walesa meant to the world in his time.

That is whom he's mainly speaking to, he isn't speaking to younger generations per se, as we see they don't even know who he is.

There are just under 9 million Americans who identify as Polish. About 780,000 of them live in Pennsylvania.

Lech Walesa said he doesn't interfere in the internal affairs of other countries
-but that's not true.

It is true. Walesa expressed his personal opinion about what he recognizes from his own life experience. Is your opinion of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and your resolution of it mean that you're "interfering" in their internal affairs?

Explain just how his opinion "interferes" with anyone else's free will choice?