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[upbeat music]

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We play games.

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Know what we play?

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I fuck your wife.

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Following Russia\'s bloody attack on democracy,

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we\'re forced to ask ourselves

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just how much is democracy really worth to us?

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For the people in the region,

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it wasn\'t a question

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but a reason to act.

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I feel myself like an arms dealer now.

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But this is what Ukraine needs now, we need arms.

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A reason to keep fighting.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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A reason to keep believing.

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There is no heaven on earth.

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You have to create it by your own, you know?

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So I fight for justice.

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I fight for freedom, and I fight for equity.

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[speaking in foreign language]

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And the reason to put

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the interests of others first.

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[speaking in foreign language]

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Backlight follows four young activists in Poland

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on the borders of freedom, exploring to what extent

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our principles can survive in times of deep crisis.

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This is \"Backlight\".

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Welcome to the world of the ideal.

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There was a time when Russia

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was the subject of heroic stories.

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Russia still celebrates its victory

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over Nazi Germany every year.

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Over the past 80 years, however,

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Russia has trampled over everyone and everything.

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A development felt across the entire region.

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In a country with such a burdened history,

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it takes a lot of courage and perseverance

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to keep hoping for, even fighting for better times.

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Poland, once a Soviet satellite state

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is becoming a haven for the suppressed

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and the persecuted.

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Russians, Belorussians, Ukrainians.

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Some decide to stay and fight for their ideals

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without the use of flags that is.

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Russia.

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Not quite popular right now.

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[Putin speaking in foreign language]

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[crowd cheering]

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[Aleksandr speaking in foreign language]

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[Putin speaking in foreign language]

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[Aleksandr speaking in foreign language]

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[crowd chanting in foreign language]

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[Aleksandr speaking in foreign language]

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One not so fine day,

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Aleksandr decided to leave Russia with his Polish wife.

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They now live in Wroclaw.

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And because he wanted to do something,

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instead of just sitting there watching,

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he became an activist.

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[train engine roaring]

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[Aleksandr speaking in foreign language]

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What do I tell my kids?

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I\'ve have to explain my eldest son

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why I don\'t have time to go to the shop

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and buy him hamster.
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And he was saying, \"Okay, but my birthday soon,

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are we gonna come back?

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I want to go home and celebrate my birthday

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with my friends in Kiev.\"

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And saying, \"Well son, I will try my best.

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But I don\'t know.\"

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[explosion booms]

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Now I\'m educating myself

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what are the differences between MIG-29s

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and F-16s and F35s

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and what is needed for whether Ukrainian army

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can operate F-16s

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and how long will it take for them to operate F-16s.

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I feel myself a little bit like an arms dealer now

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but this is what Ukrainians need now, we need arms.

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We need weapon.

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And I have to learn how to,

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how this world of weapon supply works.

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No one is born an activist.

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If you are provoked and attacked for long enough,

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a fire awakens,

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like it did with Daria.

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Before her flight from the Ukraine,

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she led her own NGO that fought against corruption

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and the influence of Russian money

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which was there long before the violence.

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I think that the problem with Russia

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and Russia\'s people is,

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unlike Germans,

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Russian society didn\'t go through some,

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you know, clearing exercise.

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Soviet Union was a totalitarian regime.

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KGB then FSB, they were not punished.

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They were not forbidden

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after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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You know, people didn\'t say that it was wrong.

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Unlike it was done in Germany, in Nazi Germany.

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And what it led to, it led to these secret services

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which were killing, robbing, raping,

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murdering for 80 years, millions of people.

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They took over power.

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And what we have now, it\'s Putin who is himself

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a product of FSB and KGB

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and he will not stop.

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[eerie music]

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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[weapons exploding]

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With all this violence,

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one could easily forget how a similar bloody war

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took place two years ago in Belarus,

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during a failed attempt to expel a friend of Putin\'s.

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This was the reason she fled to Poland,

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where she creates awareness for her cause.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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[Jana screaming]

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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Jana is essentially an artist,

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someone with creative ideas

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which she uses to make a political point.

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Like this dress, which features the faces

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of 1200 prisoners of war,

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gracefully displayed in a gallery in Warsaw.

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It didn\'t go down well in her own country, Belarus.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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Belarus, official one.

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I didn\'t sell any of them in three months.

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If you look at dictatorships

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through an activist\'s lens,

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it\'s hard to understand why an authoritarian state

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doesn\'t trigger global protest.

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An activist sees no other solution

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than to take action, no matter where or how.

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One of the reasons why I relocated

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the next day after the Russian invasion

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is because of the Russians assassination list.

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Information that such list exists was published

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in many medium before the war.

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And basically the plans of Russian government

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was and probably still is

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to eliminate people who create problems for them.

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A few days before war started

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Vladimir Putin made a long speech.

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I listened to this speech to understand his mood.

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[Putin speaking in foreign language]

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And after the speech, I had two conclusions.

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First, that the war will happen for sure,

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in the coming days it will start.

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That the war will happen actually against entire Ukraine.

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He was actually challenging the right

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for our country to exist.

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The second thing, as he mentioned,

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all reforms I was working for during the last eight years.

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Fighting corruption,

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the approach to oligarchs,

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dismantling old power structures.

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That\'s what hits the Russian state at its core.

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So we refocused from Ukrainian purely activities

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into anti-corruption activities

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towards Putin and his oligarchs.

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We made a map of assets owned by this oligarchs in Europe,

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in Germany, in France, in in Great Britain,

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in Austria, in the United States.

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And we were campaigning, asking for these countries

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to freeze this assets immediately

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to impose sanctions before war started.

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And we made it hard for also Ukrainian oligarchs

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simply to treat Ukrainian state

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as their business empire.

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So what we were doing in Ukraine was building

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out of ruins which our country was after the Soviet Union,

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the really democratic country

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where people can live in dignity,

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where you can go and protect your interest in courts,

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where there are strong institutions

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which can punish for robbing the country.

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And we were quite successful to that

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and this irritated Putin.

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So what did you order?

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I ordered the salad.

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So, what are your plans?

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My plans?

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Whatever plans.

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Refuge, the war, so ...

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Yeah, I think that I will leave next week.

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Going to Spain?

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Yeah, something like this.

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And then we\'ll, we\'ll decide what to do later, I think

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Keep me in touch

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and if you need something, just write to me.

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We\'ll always try to help you somehow.

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At the beginning, I took one family to my apartment

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but they moved almost immediately to Germany.

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The cat stayed. [laughs]

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There are various ways to take action

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depending on the gravity of the situation.

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Some people lobby for F-16s, others help refugees.

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But the Polish activist Janek fights a different battle.

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One against an intolerant government,

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corruption and real estate tycoons,

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because in Poland, its authoritarian past

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is the root of the problem.

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Our state doesn\'t build any apartments,

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public housing whatsoever.

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And now with the influx of the refugees,

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you basically you cannot rent anything right now

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because the housing stock is so low.

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I\'m from intelligentsia family.

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I\'m basically, I\'m very privileged

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even though I don\'t have so much money.

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I wasn\'t aware of the problems of working people here.

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And it turned out that basically organized crime

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is taking over buildings and kicking out people

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from the buildings and destroying people\'s lives.

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Organized crime in Poland,

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this is his area of expertise.

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As a sociologist, he explored how

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old communist power structures

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still reign in the country.

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Organized crime in Poland

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and probably the same as in other countries,

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especially post-communist countries

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was set up by the secret services,

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you know, in the late eighties.

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So when the communists started to fail,

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they tried to somehow, you know,

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privatize as much as they could.

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Yeah, like elites, from the communist elites.

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And so they started to run this,

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you know, crime groups in order to, you know

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to have people who would do their criminal work.

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They took over the houses and they would kick out,

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you know, people who were before

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you know, city tenants, communal tenants.

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And then they would privatize it

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and they would sell it on the market

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and they would buy these properties,

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the rights to these properties for 1% of the value,

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maybe even sometimes even less.

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But this building also was re-privatized.

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And you can see that it\'s empty.

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You know, like people were kicked out,

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somebody got it for free basically,

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so they can keep them empty.

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I believe that they stole around 4,000 buildings

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50,000 people were displaced and nobody fucking cared.

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Most of my work right now

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is to change mentality of the people.

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That people are not, you know, subjects,

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they\'re human and but this is how it works.

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We have this kind of, you know,

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post feudal structure in our society.

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It\'s a jungle basically.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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How much you do for others,

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all for the greater good obviously depends

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on how much you can take on.

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Some people move mountains,

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others do what they can,

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as long as it helps.

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[Janek and refugee speaking in foreign language]

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Being an activist or aid worker can be very simple.

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In fact, sometimes it\'s enough to just talk

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and listen to people in their own language.

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Something he wouldn\'t mind for himself.

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[Janek speaking in foreign language]

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[mouse clicks]

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How long do you just sit and watch for?

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When do you start to act?

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It\'s hard to imagine from the point of view

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of a safe and stable country,

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how much courage it takes for someone to speak their mind,

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let alone to turn your whole life upside down

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by moving to another country

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in order to continue the battle from there.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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[man and crowd chanting]

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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[calm music]

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Independent Belarus.

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It\'s quite popular in Poland and also in Ukraine.

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[calm music]

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[Kaczynsji speaking in foreign language]

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And then there\'s Poland,

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where there is more than enough to get worked up about,

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enough to campaign for.

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After all, Poland is one of the countries

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that still faces the legacy of communist dictatorship.

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It may be an EU member

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but Poland also boasts a long tradition

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of nepotism and intolerance.

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And that is exactly what aggravates him

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and causes him to spring into action.

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[Kaczynsji speaking in foreign language]

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The institutions are not independent.

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Nepotism, you know, like is huge here.

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Corruption is huge here.

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So I came up with this new phrase, \"cupboard state\"

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which is basically a very weak state

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that doesn\'t solve people\'s problems.

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This neoliberalism that was put on us

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after fall of communism,

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this hardcore individualization of everything,

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that you are on your own, you have to fight,

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nobody will help you.

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You need to be, you know, wolf or you will be eaten.

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You know, all this horrible things

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that were were forced on us.

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I was elected when I was 27 to the Council of Warsaw

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and I ran for mayor of Warsaw in 2018.

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In a democracy, the logical thing to do

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when you feel very strongly about something

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is to take it to the next level,

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to go into politics.

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Unfortunately, Poland is not so enamored

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with busy bodies like him.

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It\'s always been like that

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because men with good connections keep quiet.

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Not this one though.

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When I started I felt, you know,

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it\'ll be easy, you know,

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I will become a council member.

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You know, I will be helping people

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and I will try to do, you know, good things to them

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and they will re reward me in the next elections.

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I was like central left at the beginning.

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And then I radicalized

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because I saw that the biggest problems

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that I have to deal with in my work

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are the problems that are caused by big money.

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And now he faces another court case

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his 30th no less

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because the establishment has its ways

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and knows exactly what to do.

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All you can do about it is laugh.

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[men speaking in foreign language]

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Then I understood that the system will crush me

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because they will never allow me in the politics

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because I\'m too dangerous

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because I\'m basically not allowing them to steal buildings.

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But from guy, from good family, from intelligentsia,

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son of a professor at the university

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does this kind of stuff, I\'m a class traitor

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because if I wouldn\'t be saying this stuff all the time

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and fighting for these people

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I could be in a very nice, you know, position right now.

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Some kind of, you know, public post or whatever.

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I have some friends, but it\'s a lonely fight.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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[host speaking in foreign language]

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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[crowd applauding]

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[Jana sighs]

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[crowd applauding]

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[crowd applauding]

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[crowd applauding]

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[crowd applauding]

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I think we\'re now gonna go to a question from Ukraine.

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Thank you Prime Minister, Daria Kaleniuk.

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I head the Anti-Corruption Action Center from Ukraine

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and I passed the border a couple of days ago.

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I\'m from Kiev.

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Most of my family, most of my team members,

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are still in the Ukraine, in Kiev.

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Britain guaranteed our security under Budapest memorandum.

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So you\'re coming to Poland,

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you\'re not coming to Kiev, Prime Minister.

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You\'re not coming to Lviv.

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Because you are afraid.

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Because NATO is not willing to defend.

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Because NATO Is afraid of the World War III.

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But it has already started.

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And these are Ukrainian children who are there,

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taking the hit.

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You\'re talking about more sanctions, prime minister,

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but Roman Abramovic is not sanctioned.

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He is in London.

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His children are not in the bombardments.

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His children are there, in London.

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Putin\'s children are in Netherlands, in Germany.

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In mansions.

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Where are all these mansions seized?

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I don\'t see that.

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I see that my family members,

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that my team members are saying that we are crying.

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We don\'t know where to run.

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This is what is happening, Prime Minster.

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Well thank you, thank you very much

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for your questions

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and thank you for getting here today and I\'m glad-

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Europe was already in this moment in 1939,

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there was opportunity to stop Hitler

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with smaller costs

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of efforts and lives in 1939.

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But everyone was trying, you know,

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to solve its own problems.

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For the cost first of Austria

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and then for the cost of Czechoslovakia

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and then for the cost of Poland,

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giving more to the dictator

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and being afraid to provoke the dictator.

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Warsaw didn\'t, was ruined in 90% of ruins.

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Mariopul has 90% of of ruins.

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What does it remind?

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It reminds that the World War III has already started.

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Putin is challenging the liberal democracy.

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Putin is challenging existing international institutions

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and international order.

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Ukraine is just a battle field.

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Ukraine, second most popular one.

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It requires tremendous perseverance

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to keep fighting for the greater good,

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particularly in former Soviet republics

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where the tide is turning very slowly.

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Many generations have fought for freedom in the past.

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This entire region\'s soil is drenched with blood.

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[ominous music]

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In a strange way, history offers a solution.

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Russia once fought for a cause that he, at least understood.

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He takes comfort in this memory.

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[speaking in foreign language]

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My family was also refugees, you know,

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and but they were accepted by Russia.

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They were part of Russia then, that\'s quite interesting.

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My grandmother from my mother\'s side

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and my grandmother from my father\'s side,

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they survived the war in Russia.

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So it\'s quite interesting that for my grandparents,

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Russia was the place that saved Jews, basically,

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from the German oppression.

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We have also this feeling that they saved

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part of our family, but now everything has changed.

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They are the fascist regime that wants to

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wipe out people who are not from their ethnicity,

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which is crazy, you know?

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This house was part of the German district

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during the second World War.

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And basically during the war it was a place where,

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you know officers of Wehrmacht lived.

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So you can see from the windows here,

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you can basically see the headquarters of war.

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So Gestapo, where horrible things happened during the war.

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It\'s quite symbolic that Jewish family could survive

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the the Holocaust is living now.

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So we, yeah, we won.

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Life won over death

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and hopefully it will stay this way.

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Rulers come and go.

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How long they stay however,

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depends on the people who have the guts

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to stand up and speak their mind.

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Maybe this is what activists, however much

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or little they do, are trying to tell us.

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As long as there are people who rob others of their freedom

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there will be people like them,

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people who are prepared to reclaim that freedom.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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What does freedom mean for me?

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You understand what is freedom

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when you are about to lose it.

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[Aleksandr speaking in foreign language]

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Freedom is also responsibility for other people.

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And freedom ends when somebody else freedom starts.

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[Jana speaking in foreign language]

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It\'s something worse to protect and defend.

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Poland, the most beautiful one.

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[upbeat music]