A crowd of 5-10 thousand people gathered at 6pm at Three Crosses Square, at the monument of Wincenty Witos. The national anthem was sung and the names of victims killed during the period of martial law were read out aloud. The crow, led by PiS (Law and Justice) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, proceeded through Aleje Ujazkowskie until the statue of Jozef Pilsudki, near Belweder, the residence of Polish President, where official speeches were made.

On the way PiS representative laid flowers at the monuments of Wincenty Witos, Ignacy Paderewski, both former Polish rpesidents, Stefan Grot-Rowecki and Ronald Reagan.

Before the march, its initiator, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, informed that the message of the march will not only be the memory of the victims killed during martial law but also contemporary threats for Polish independence.

The latter aim turned dominant as PiS supporters marched with banners which read “Tusk to Berlin” and “Sikorski traitor of the nation”, “Wake up Poland! We had enough!”, “We do not believe in justice in Polish courts”.

Kaczynski condemned Radoslaw Sikorski’s Berlin speech and the idea of deepening integration among European states which he saw as a threat to Poland's sovereignty and democracy.

While speaking to the crow gathered at the monument of Jozef Pilsudski, Kaczynski said that “It is hard to imagine a situation more dangerous, than when representatives of democratic countries are paying homage to other countries,” he said referring to Sikorski’s address in Berlin in which he said that he fears Germany’s power less  than it’s inactivity.

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