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Capitalism is in crisis.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
Economist
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Lech Walesa
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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