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political parties and organizations fuel fear and hatred towards Islam and Muslims. Hate crimes such as arson and physical violence have occurred in Poland (despite having a Muslim population of only 0.1%, that is 30,000 out of 38 million). Politicians have also made racist and anti-Muslim comments
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Following the collapse of a communist system in the country, the far-right ideology became visible. The pan-Slavic and neopagan Polish National Union (PWN-PSN) political party at its peak was one of the larger groups active in the early 1990s, numbering then some 4,000 members and making
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had the best performance of any far-right coalition to date, earning 1,256,953 votes which was 6.81% of the total vote in an election that saw a historically high turnout. Together the coalition (although de jure a party) earned 11 seats, 5 for
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In May 2016, despite criticism from human rights NGOs, opposition parties and left-wing organizations, of the appeasement of the far-right, the right-wing government of
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being a marginal political party, under the leadership of Adam Gmurczyk, operates since the late 1980s. It is a member of European National Front and a co-founder of
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Members of far-right groups make up a significant portion of those taking part in the annual "Independence March" in central Warsaw, which started in 2009, to mark
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was founded in 1998 by Tomasz Szczepanski, a former NOP member, promoting Slavic supremacy and neopaganism. Since the mid-1990s, the ultra-Catholic
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claimed that Poland "can't" accept any refugees because "they could spread infectious diseases." In 2017, the First Deputy Minister of Justice
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in Poland at 2,000, the fifth highest number after Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the United States. Since the late 2000s, native
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gained 5 seats out of Kukiz's 42. In April 2016, the National Movement leadership decided to break-off with
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were "recreated" in 1989 and 1993, respectively becoming Poland's most prominent far-right organizations.
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Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550-1772
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On the political level, the biggest victories achieved so far by the far-right were in the
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won 38 seats in 2001, and 34 in 2005. In 2015, entering parliament from the list of
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station has been on air with an anti-modernist, nationalist and xenophobic program.
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Poland's populist government let far-right extremism explode into mainstream
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international headlines for its anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism. The
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followed the party's instructions. The ones that decided to stay with
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groups were largely absorbed into more casual and better organized "
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