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Gay rights ‘worse than communism,’ says Polish President Andrzej Duda
People with Rainbow flags dance as they take part in a rainbow disco flashmob in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw

POLISH President Andrzej Duda said on Saturday that the gay rights movement was worse than communism.

Mr Duda of the ruling Law and Justice Party said that his parents’ generation did not struggle to cast off communism only to accept an “ideology” that is “even more destructive to the human being.”

He has signed a declaration calling for a ban on “propagating LGBT ideology in public institutions.”

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