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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Paweł Płuska could be bitter or vengeful. The veteran journalist saw Poland’s previous, authoritarian government turn state media into a partisan mouthpiece. 

Now that regime is gone, ousted by voters, and Mr. Płuska wants to help rebuild. How? “There is no hatred, no poison, no hate,” he tells Lenora Chu. “This is public television, so all groups, even those that do not recognize us, have their place here. We explain to people that patriotism does not mean that you are a member of one party.”

Poland helped lead Eastern Europe out of communism. Today, its lessons are for the world. 


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Paweł Płuska (right) stands in for the host during lighting and sound checks. Mr. Płuska is head editor for the evening news program at TVP, Poland’s state broadcaster.
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A supporter of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny holds his portrait outside the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, where a funeral service and a farewell ceremony for Navalny were held, in Moscow, March 1. Navalny died last month in a remote Arctic penal colony, and several locations declined to host the service, his spokesperson said.
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