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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
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