(12 Apr 2025)
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Warsaw, Poland – 12 April 2025
1. Wide of Castle Square with crowd and Polish flags
2. A man shouts through a megaphone UPSOUND (Polish): "Long live Poland"
3. Various of King Sigismund III Vasa monument visible between Polish flags
4. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Karol Nawrocki, presidential candidate for Law and Justice Party:
"We want a Republic of Poland that cares for Poles and wants Poles to live well in the Republic of Poland. We want a Poland with aspirations, with dreams, because we are committed to those who came before us and to those who will come after us. We want a great Poland!"
5. Wide of Nawrocki on stage
6. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Karol Nawrocki, presidential candidate for Law and Justice Party:
"Yes, today we have to think about the Republic of Poland in another thousand years, because we are only the depositaries of this heritage, this beauty, this crown that was given to us."
7. Crowd of people listening
8. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Karol Nawrocki, presidential candidate for Law and Justice Party:
"Poles will never give up their freedom, they will never give up their sovereignty, because we know that Poland is a great cause. Long live free and independent Poland!"
9. Crowd of people chanting: UPSOUND (Polish) "Karol Nawrocki"
10. Various of people holding Polish flags
11. Stanislaw Bieniek in crowd
12. Close of U.S. and Polish flag
13. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Stanislaw Bieniek, march attendee:
"I am a Pole through and through, and an American by choice, because I wanted to leave Poland (before the fall of communism), so I had a one-way ticket, as they say. I had to get (American) citizenship. My whole family voted for (Donald) Trump, and now I live here and I will vote for (Karol) Nawrocki, so that he wins."
14. Katarzyna Bareja sitting on the bench
15. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Katarzyna Bareja, march attendee:
"This is a phenomenal opportunity to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of the Kingdom of Poland. The coronation of our first king. I am proud of it. You can see the enthusiasm, the joy of life, the patriotism. It is worth belonging to the nation and confirming that we belong to it."
16. Man in a cap with text reading (English): "Make America Great Again"
17. Various of people holding Polish flags
18. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Mieczyslaw Chmielewski, march attendee:
"It’s all too late. I’ve always said, PiS (Law and Justice party) did one thing right and screwed up ten things, but it’s all too late. I don’t know if we’ll go back to Poland and if we’ll get back on our feet."
19. Wide of Chmielewski
20. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Mieczyslaw Chmielewski, march attendee:
"It’s all the same, Russia, Germany and France, it’s all the same. This war in Ukraine should have ended long ago, if Germany and France had acted differently. After all, they’re very afraid of (Donald) Trump now, right? I was rooting for him."
21. Various of horse riders in traditional historical costumes performing
22. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Monika Gacek, march attendee:
"I am Polish from my grandfather’s great-grandfather’s side and for me this is a national event. I cultivate the tradition of my grandfathers, which is why I believe I should be here today with the rest of my brothers."
23. Various of Participants of the demonstration, dancing the Polonaise, some in traditional costumes ++MUSIC COMPOSED BY WOJCIECH KILAR++
STORYLINE:
Poles traveled from across the country to the nation’s capital Warsaw for a patriotic demonstration Saturday celebrating 1,000 years since the coronation of the first Polish king.
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