He had planned to sack Ryszard Czarnecki, head of the bureaucracy preparing for membership of the European Union.

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He literally changed his name from Ryszard Kossobudzki to Richard Cosby and tried to sort of forget the past.

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Then I found a card of an ex-prisoner of war, named Ryszard Kossobudzki and when I saw that, I just wept.

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