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in full ceremonial dress being crushed by a meteor. Tomczak stated he damaged the sculpture "because this is what my voters expected me to do". At the scene, Tomczak and Nowina-Konopczyna left an open letter addressed to the prime minister, the minister of justice and the minister of culture, in
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