Let’s leave it aside when unimaginable things happen. On September 29, 2023, Lech Wałęsa turned eighty years old. An electrician by trade, who signed something on behalf of the majority several times without any authorization.
A weave of writing and spirit, not obvious to post-1945 European history, inexplicably transferred directly from a biblical context, overturned the Cold War world order.
Soon, more might depend again on our ticks on voting cards than we realize. Just a quirk of fate.
A participant in Wałęsa’s 1991 press conference in London confirms that Wałęsa made two remarks there. Only his joke about searching for a wife in an overly spacious royal bed was picked up and publicized by the English press. Wałęsa’s second remark, when asked about his impressions of Windsor, was a sober warning from a practitioner about a fire that must break out with such a state of electrical installation in the castle. This impertinence of a worker from the continent was overlooked.
In November 1992, a fire devoured over a hundred rooms in the northeast wing of Windsor. The scale of the destruction was such that the Queen opened part of Buckingham Palace to visitors to raise funds for the reconstruction.