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My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

I don't hold grudges.

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

I can't hold a grudge anyway.

I never hold a grudge.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.