When the Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago, it was a special day for Lech Walesa. The workers' leader and later president of Poland put his country on the road to democracy when he founded the trade union Solidarnosc.
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Deutsche Welle: Lech Walesa on Poland and Ukraine (interview)
DW spoke to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Polish President Lech Walesa about the events 25 years ago and the parallels to current developments in Ukraine.