Lech Wałęsa and Solidarity: The Electrician Who Challenged an Empire

  How an ordinary worker helped turn a shipyard strike into a movement that changed Poland—and Europe There are moments in history when courage does not come from a palace. It does not wear a uniform. It does not command an army. Sometimes it carries a toolbox. Sometimes it climbs a shipyard fence. And sometimes it belongs to an electrician who looks at one of the most powerful authoritarian systems in the world and decides that ordinary people deserve a voice. In August 1980, Lech Wałęsa entered [...]