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Drumul spre adevar. Autobiografie

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Dacă am bănuit cândva că voi sta în fruntea a milioane de oameni? Nu. Ştiam, în schimb, că am de realizat nişte obligaţii importante, sarcini ale momentului actual. De fapt, viaţa umană în sine este o sarcină, de vreme ce toată viaţa trebuie să căutăm adevărul. Dacă renunţăm la acest lucru, ne pierdem rostul. Fiecare a căpătat un talent pe care nu şi-l poate irosi şi, în acest sens, orice om are de efectuat o sarcină concretă. Nu există sarcini mai mari şi mai mici. Fiecare capătă sarcina cea mai mare. Pe măsura posibilităţilor sale. Chemarea noastră, a fiecăruia, nu este o măsură a chemării celuilalt. Şi eu, şi celălalt vom da socoteală în faţa lui Dumnezeu.
Ştiu că ceea ce am făcut şi fac e departe de perfecţiune. Mai ştiu că există mulţi oameni care, în locul meu, s-ar comporta mai bine. Dar aşa am văzut voinţa Domnului! Ea poate fi primită cu încredere şi umilinţă şi înfăptuită cât mai bine. Eu doresc să-mi îndeplinesc sarcinile cât mai bine, asta intenţionez. Oare întotdeauna mă achit de datorii aşa cum ar trebui? Nu eu sunt cel care să aprecieze asta.
Lech Wałęsa



A durat ceva îndemnul de a scrie această carte. Eu întotdeauna prefer viitorul. M-am gândit, până la urmă, că merită să arunc o privire spre cei peste 60 de ani — nu-mi vine să cred că sunt atât de mulţi. Merită să-mi reamintesc mie, şi poate şi urmaşilor, istoria unei vieţi captivante. În cu totul alte vremuri a luat naştere cartea mea Drumul speranţei, fiindcă în anii 1970–80 trăiam cu speranţa, vremurile erau grele, cu urcuşuri efemere, dar frumoase, fiindcă îţi dădeau încredere în viitor. Mai târziu a apărut Drumul spre libertate, în care descriu lupta decisivă din a doua jumătate a anilor 1980 şi perioada de răscruce, victoria noastră fragilă. Atunci mi se părea că am descris şi am făcut ce era mai important, pentru că avem libertate şi democraţie. Următoarea carte ar fi putut fi Drumul spre globalizare sau Drumul spre democraţie. Nu am crezut niciodată că va trebui să public Drumul spre adevăr, că va fi necesar să reamintesc felul în care au stat cu adevărat lucrurile. Reamintesc, aşadar, şi mereu spun „eu, eu, eu“, pentru a vedea ce anume am reuşit „noi“ să facem împreună în această generaţie. Fiindcă acesta e adevărul, chiar dacă unul sau altul va încerca să-l schimbe, să-l subestimeze.

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

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Lech Wałęsa

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Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.

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January 8, 2009
Interesting, not great. The 1987 edition claims to be a translation from "Le Chemin d'espoir," and as far as I know, Walesa doesn't speak any more French than he does English, so who was his French ghostwriter? My edition doesn't say. His (or her) style is not inspiring. But I'm fascinated anyway. It is a distinctive voice, although something is clearly lost in the translation, and it takes me back to Poland--the cold wet winters, two-room flats full of children, coal smoke, trams and buses, heavy food, vodka. The revelation for me is just how bad things were under the Communist regime, which ended peacefully a couple years before I got there (which is why Mr. W. is my hero). I'm reading about the early years of the free labor unions, in the late 1970's, when Walesa and his companions were feeling their way in the dark, negotiating with the regime, trying to keep their jobs, learning to give speeches without losing their tempers. (At the same time, he and his wife were raising 7 children in one of those two-room flats.)

One fascinating thing in this book is Walesa's spectacular lack of self-awareness. His contributors write about him. He writes about his family and Solidarity, not about himself.

My parents got to meet Lech Walesa two years ago. I have a picture of the three of them together. Mom and Dad look excited and happy. Between them, Mr. Walesa is grinning and gripping his hands together--clearly very nervous. The hero of Solidarnosc, friend of the Pope, and past president of Poland is very human.
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May 24, 2010
325 pages. Donated 2010 May

I sometimes feel as if I belong to a past age, the age which is evoked in our national anthem, "Poland has not perished." The conditions in which this anthem saw the light of day are much the same as those we live under today, and the same can be siad of the hopes and values it expresses: courage, defiance, pride. But there will come a time, which I won't live to see, when narrow dPolish problems have been brushed aside, replaced by harmony and peace over our entire planet, and I expect that our children or our children's chilcren will then be able to sing another, more ositive sone. Until that time we have work to do.
-Lech Waleska, Gdansk, March 1987.
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January 29, 2024
I enjoyed this book, and especially since it was written in 1987, two years before the transformational events of 1989. Walesa paints the insights into the strikes of 1970, 1980 and Martial Law in 1981. He stresses non-violence at every turn. And of course today we know that course was eventually not only successful, but literally derailed communism in Poland and beyond.
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October 21, 2022
Written not long after his rise to fame as a leader of Poland's Solidarity ('Solidarnosz') Movement that eventually led to the downfall of the communist regime and communist Eastern Europe, this is an engaging look into a man who was able to rally striking shipyard workers into a viable political and social force.
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awesome.
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