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/^t/Politics is one of the 'symptoms' of life of the society. Violence in politics may not touch common people but nevertheless it creates a world-wide image of every country. Brutalization and contempt for good (political) manners do not serve good to the country itself. This lack of political etiquette may be cause, as it is in Poland's case, by years of the Communist regime whose leaders claimed that 'all people are equal'. They also put a strong stress on disregard for proper behaviour which was then associated with the upper class (this class was severely prosecuted as there should not be any classes in the socialist society). Political leaders nowadays, regardless of their political views, fight for power and resort to all the possible means to gain it. They do not hesitate before destroying political adversaries. Political party which is in power shows lack of respect for opponents' views. This kind of behaviour is surely unacceptable in a civilized society but it is inextricably linked with the 'young' democratic system. After a few years of democracy all these negative phenomena deepened and they result in the increase of violence in politics.