TOLAND, Connecticut – A Polish-born US-based Connecticut serviceman was taken by surprise as he responded to a jeep with a flat tire on Wednesday – former Polish President Lech Walesa turned out to be a passenger in the vehicle.
State police say soldier Lukasz Lipert arrived in Toland on a call and was greeted by Valens, who spoke in Hartford on Tuesday as part of a tour of the United States in support of refugees fleeing Ukraine during the war. with Russia.
Lipert, 35, who came to the United States when he was 18, told The Hartford Courant that he had spoken to Walesa in Polish about their homeland and the anti-communist movement that Walesa helped lead.
“It was definitely a great opportunity to meet the man who had a voice in those days,” Lippert said. “It was definitely a great experience.”
Walesa, 78, led Poland’s national Solidarity movement in the 1980s, which eventually toppled Poland’s communist leaders through elections in 1989. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983 and served as the country’s first nationally elected president. Poland from 1990 to 1995. It is strong. critic of Poland’s right-wing government.
A vehicle service worker changed the tire and Walesa continued on her way on I-84. One of his next stops is an event in Boston on Monday.
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