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Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
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Lech Wałęsa
President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
20th-century Polish trade union
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Internment
Imprisonment or confinement of groups of people without trial
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)