"What happened after December 16, '81, also leaves us, contemporaries, with an important message. About what the communist system was, but also about what Poland was like after '89 and what the systemic transformation looked like after 1989" - said President Karol Nawrocki during the commemoration of the 44th anniversary of the pacification of the Wujek mine.

"The murderers under communism were not convicted, but those who had the strength and courage to protest, other miners, were persecuted. No one was convicted before '89 for the premeditated murder of 9 people, nor were they convicted after 1989. Convictions only came in the 21st century, with symbolic sentences" - he continued.

"How can one receive a sentence of 4 or 6 years of imprisonment when shooting at an innocent person? How can we speak of freedom, of the rule of law, when in the 21st century those who murdered here and spilled the blood of Polish miners, murdered their brothers, Poles, have not been brought to justice?" - he went on to say.

"This, unfortunately, was the Third Polish Republic for a long time, during which the main dictators and murderers, like Wojciech Jaruzelski and Czesław Kiszczak, never bore responsibility for the murder of nearly 100 victims of martial law, and those who today want to teach us democracy, freedom, and European values, called the dictator Wojciech Jaruzelski a man of honor and buried him with honors" - he added.

"Freedom does not look like this, and this story is being told today, here at the Wujek mine. Yes, we expect historical justice and for freedom to be called freedom, victims to be called victims, and executioners to be called executioners. This is what our present and our future need" - he emphasized.