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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.

Adam Michnik

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.’
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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world – even if it is conservative and disagreeable – and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green.
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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally.
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Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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America needed our help, and we had to give 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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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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Although there is a strong desire for freedom in the countries of Eastern Europe, there is no democratic tradition, so that the risk of anarchy and chaos continues to exist.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.
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