“The politician has a right to defend his dignity. I ignored the first wave of invectives, but the second one was too much, I couldn't have handled it and I had said in hard (but for the street - where I was - soft) words that he should go.”

—  Lech Kaczyński

President Kaczyński's comment on words above. (2002)

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