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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.

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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France – just think of Le Pen – and even in Finland and Sweden.
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After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
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We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing.
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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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I can’t remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I’m not an idiot.
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Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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