# Polish Independence March: PM on crowds and Sienkiewicz’s role

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120549137053815210
- Source account: [@OficjalneZero](https://x.com/OficjalneZero)
- Source language: Polish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:10
- Published: 2026-11-12
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/pl/marsz-niepodleg%C5%82o%C5%9Bci-premier-o-t%C5%82umach-i-roli-sienkiewicza.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role) Greetings to all Polish patriots. I hope that means all Poles.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=3) These crowds look bigger than ever at the Independence March.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=7) Absolutely record-breaking. I used to go to the marches before 2015, before I entered politics.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=12) Definitely a record-breaking crowd, and I hope it reflects a certain national awakening, that, indeed, for us, independence, sovereignty, solidarity are great values.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=25) Your favorite of the fathers of independence, the prime minister's favorite?

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=28) I mean favorite in the sense of the most important person. I may surprise you and everyone here, because today we laid a wreath at several obvious fathers of independence, like Piłsudski, Witos, Daszyński, Dmowski, we visited Cardinal Wyszyński,

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=46) And nearby, not far away, stands a monument to Bolesław Prus.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=51) I consider him, too, a father of independence, just as I consider Henryk Sienkiewicz perhaps the most important father of independence, because without turning the Polish peasants one has to say, uh, from the second half of the 19th century,

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=67) into a nation, I think we would not have won our independence in 1920.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=72) And as for how people receive you, Mr. Prime Minister, here at the march, because this march is organized by nationalist circles since its inception.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=81) Well, now it has a much broader context, it has broken out of that bubble.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=84) How do Independence March participants see you?

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=87) You know what, very well, but I think that, uh, I'll say something not all politicians would agree with.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=95) I believe that there should be a place at the Independence March for left-wing politicians, and for right-wing politicians, and for those who are nationalists, and those who are socialists, because we are all Polish.

[1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=108) I believe there is room here for everyone.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=109) Independence is our kind of sacred word.

[1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=113) For independence, our ancestors, not so long ago, gave, gave their lives.

[1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=118) Let us remember that, and I am grateful to everyone who is here, to those watching us, who honor the white and red colors, not white and red, who love Poland.

[2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QOV7zeR6iWps/en/polish-independence-march-pm-on-crowds-and-sienkiewicz-s-role?t=128) Thank you all.