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Lech Wałęsa, the first chairman of the Solidarity Trade Union, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, President of the 3rd Republic of Poland, and Honorary Citizen of the City of Gdańsk began work in 1967 as a ship electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland (then the Polish People's Republic). Over the next 20 odd years he would lead strikes, be interned, and go underground where he continued to organize the massively influential Solidarity Movement, leading eventually to the end of communist rule in Poland.
