[14] Proceedings were opened for violating laws against "insulting people based on religion, ethnicity, race or nationality".

[20] An illegal rally held on June 30, 2007 resulted in a court case, in which the ONR leader, Wojciech Mazurkiewicz, was acquitted only because the magistrate warning was issued too late, according to the presiding judge.

One of them (in Warsaw), as a co-initiative of several different nationalist movements in 2010, evolved in 2012 into one of the biggest events during the day, which now attracts a more diverse community.

[30] Foreign guests included self-identified Italian fascist Roberto Fiore, Slovak neo-Nazi MP Milan Mazurek, and several members of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party.

[33] The march was cited in a European Parliament resolution that called for member states to act decisively against far-right extremism.

[36][37] Far-right activists and groups from Hungary, Estonia, Belarus, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, USA and Portugal joined the event in 2021 and formed the "Nationalistic Column" with Polish far-right organizations and movements, including but not limited to: "Trzecia Droga", "Szturmowcy", Autonomiczni Nacjonaliści, All-Polish Youth, National Rebirth of Poland (NOP) and the ONR.