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My torment living with Lech Walesa: Wife of Polish Solidarity legend reveals her loneliness and jealousy as he rose to power from the shipyard
- Danuta, 62, felt neglected as she raised their eight children
- 'No divorce but we lived two separate worlds'
By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
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The wife of former Polish president Lech Walesa has told of the huge price she paid for her husband's struggle against communism.
She revealed her loneliness and jealousy as her husband led his shipyard workers in a revolt which eventually toppled the country's authoritarian regime.
He would go on to win a Nobel peace prize, but 62-year-old Danuta Walesa felt neglected as she raised their eight children.
Couple: Danuta Walesa and her husband Lech attend a ceremony in 2008 marking 25 years since he was awarded the Nobel peace prize
Now in a candid 550-page autobiography, Dreams and Secrets, which is out next week, she.expresses hurt that she was excluded from her husband's strategic decisions that gave rise to Solidarity.
Some of the revelations from the book shatter the long-held view of a happy and deeply united former president and first lady - not least because of their shared Roman Catholic faith.
'There was no formal divorce, but there were two separate worlds in our family,
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SIMILAR ROLES, BUT DISSIMILAR MEN
ROANOKE TIMES Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times DATE: Saturday, April 13, 1996 TAG: 9604150047 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-1 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: RICHARD FOSTER STAFF WRITER
WALESA AND JEFFERSON are vastly different people. But each was vital to his nation's move to democracy.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa is a great guy, but he's no Thomas Jefferson.
That's what the experts will tell you, if not in those exact words.
A Jefferson admirer, Walesa spoke Friday - Jefferson's 253rd birthday - to an invitation-only audience at Poplar Forest, Jefferson's Bedford County retreat.
So what would Jefferson have thought of the man who founded the Polish labor union Solidarity and brought about the end of communism in Poland more than 200 years after Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence?
Well, if our third president happened to be peering down on his former home Friday, he might have had mixed thoughts.
"I don't know what Jefferson might have said about labor unions," said C. William Hill, a Roanoke College political science professor and Jefferson expert who has performed in costume as the statesman. "He wanted us, as long as we could, to remain a nation of freehold farmers - people who owned enough land to be sel
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