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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

— Lech Wałęsa

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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

You can’t change the facts with your lies, allegations and counterfeits

It is good that it came out that bad.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

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