Lech Walesa Reflects On Poland's 20 Years Of Freedom.

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Lech Walesa reflects on his life's work.
Twenty years ago, Poland became the first country in Eastern Europe since the WW2 to have a non-Communist prime minister, following the victory of Walesa's Solidarity movement in elections.

"My duty was to fight and to conquer and that is what I did," he says. "But the changes could have been better. Think about the scale of what we did here. It would be like you in Britain switching from driving on the left to driving on the right. We have changed from left to right and the cost was tremendous."