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by Wojtek Kość Kalisz (central Poland), 1997. The presidential helicopter gently touches down on a grassy airfield, a hundred meters from a crowd waiting for the President. Close-up: Marek Siwiec, Chief of National Security Bureau, appears in the helicopter’s door. Slow motion: as he is descending three foldable steps, he nonchalantly makes a cross sign, […]