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will continue to be very important
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in a place that had virtually no parliamentary traditions.
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There were no democratic traditions,
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even in a country like Poland,
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which had been divided up between these three empires.
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So, it's pretty darn hard to suddenly say,
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"Now we are a republic,"
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and try to make that work.
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It's very, very difficult.
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Indeed, there's a mistake in that book,
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or at least my Polish friends tell me it's a mistake.
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I have described Pilsudski, whose parents and who himself