Twenty-five years ago this week, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa received the Nobel Peace Prize.

How important was the accolade for Poland and for European developments? How much does the world still remember the events of early 1980s and the birth of Solidarity? Would the fall of communism be possible without the world’s attention on the Nobel Peace Prize for Wałęsa and the Solidarity movement? Justyna Czarnecka has interviewed the prominent British historian Norman Davies for Polish Radio’s External Service.