The Strange (Second) Life of Lech Walesa

"Of Wales", as his surname may be inferred in Russian (though it is, as I notice now, spelled differently) might have posed a good name, had he been half a century before less belated, to become a major - and in his home country perhaps less beloved - figure in the British labour movement instead, and lived up to his image. Rugged, simple and rough, with a brusque attitude and acerbic witticism for dialogue, his was a place seemingly more belated than Victorian Britain.