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 | | On the 60th anniversary of his death, on 12th May 1995, the Polish Sejm issued a statement: "Józef Piłsudski will remain in the memory of our nation as the founder of independence and as the victorious leader who fended off a foreign assault that threatened the whole of Europe and its civilisation. |
 | | Pilsudski’s vision of Poland, paradoxically, was never attained. |
 | | He contributed immensely to the creation of a modern Polish state, to the preservation of Poland from the Soviet invasion, yet he failed to create the kind of multinational commonwealth, based on principles of social justice and ethnic tolerance, to which he aspired in his youth. |
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