Kolakowski paid dearly for his free thinking – less than two years after his speech in Warsaw, he was deprived of his teaching position and forced into an exile that would last for over 20 years.
Kołakowski zaplatil za svobodné myšlení vysokou cenu – necelé dva roky po projevu ve Varšavě byl zbaven místa na univerzitě a vyhnán do exilu, který nakonec trval přes 20 let.