# Polish Independence Figures: Mazowiecki and John Paul II Named in Parliament

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119882154612273637
- Source account: [@DariuszMatecki](https://x.com/DariuszMatecki)
- Source language: Polish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:05
- Published: 2026-11-09
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament) Footage by Mateusz Wiktorowicz. Which father of independence is closest to you?

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=6) Polish? Is he going upstairs? Where should he go? To the side.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=12) Before Independence Day, on November eleventh, a member of parliament is asked in the Sejm who is the father of Polish independence, and he asks if they mean Polish independence.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=20) No! German, German, Kropiwnicki. Polish, yes, yes.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=24) Tadeusz Mazowiecki, of course. Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=28) These people are from some completely different world, it's some completely different Poland, if it's Poland at all.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=35) If someone like Kropiwnicki can even be put in the group called Poland, because that's not Polish thinking.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=44) Looking at it after the First World War.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=46) Fathers of independence? John Paul.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B97873v45YE3/en/polish-independence-figures-mazowiecki-and-john-paul-ii-named-in-parliament?t=51) The problem is that John Paul II, because I think he meant our pope, In nineteen eighteen, after the end of the First World War, well, he wasn't around yet, because he was born in nineteen twenty.