The crowd listens with concentration to words flowing from loudspeakers. The words of the cardinal and the poets, those of workers and “Solidarity” leaders. Young people, pathfinders, elderly women in mourning, workers and white collars - everybody came.

They remember about June, they want to remember. But they also want to hear, very much, that nobody is now in danger, that they will now be able to speak their minds. And that nobody will cheat them. […]

The city recovers its dignity. People read the words of truth, view photographic exhibition, hear about the guilty ones and the victims. And they know, they know very well, that this fact - that they are able to speak out and make public assessments - is the best guarantee for the future. It is the best buffer preventing such a tragedy from recurring. […]

The whole of Poznań knows very well that the flowers laid at the foot of the monument, at commemorative plaques or in newly renamed streets are a symbolic act of tribute and faith of all Poles. The truth creates dignity and a chance for the future.

Don’t let them divide us, don’t let them set us at loggerheads with one another; don’t let them trace „anti-socialist forces”, „counterrevolutionaries”, „factiousness and hooliganism”. The working world is not counterrevolution.