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A great democratic moment in Poland

A great democratic moment in Poland

+ no Turkish delight in Istanbul + walking and talking in Lviv

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History of the Present (week ending 21 October 2023)

My old friend Andrzej Rosner, with whom I also went to the polls in 1989, at a Warsaw polling station with his daughter Zuzia, now a lawyer, and a very long ballot paper.

Young and female voters saw off the populists and gave hope to Europe

To be in Poland on the night of Sunday, 15 October 2023, was to …

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