...anybody not a leftist...s gathered in Warsaw on Saturday to attend an annual "Independence March" under the banner: "We Want God".
The rally, which began at 3pm (14:00 GMT) local time, coincides with Poland's independence day on November 11.
According to the organisers, the event is the biggest "patriotic" gathering of its kind in Europe.
"We expect something like 100,000 people to attend this year," said Al Jazeera's David Chater, reporting from Warsaw.
Organisers later claimed the number had exceeded that estimate.
Some of the chants early on in the day included: "Great national Poland, religion is the basis of the Polish nation, Great Catholic Poland and one nation across the borders".
Later chants directed expletives at refugees, leftists, liberal media outlers, and the US.
A countermarch organised by Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...Warsaw drew around 5,000 participants, according to lidia Domanska, one of those involved.
| Update from Ynet at 10:30 a.m. has a smaller crowd count: |
Tens of thousands of nationalists marched in a demonstration organized by far-right groups in Warsaw Saturday, as Poles celebrated their country's Independence Day.
The far-right march was one of many events marking Poland's rebirth as a nation in 1918 after being wiped off the map for 123 years. Earlier in the day, President Andrzej Duda presided over state ceremonies also attended by European Union president Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister.
But the march has become the largest Independence Day event in recent years, overshadowing official state observances and other patriotic events. Some participants expressed sympathy for xenophobic or white supremacist ideas, with one banner reading, "White Europe of brotherly nations."
Participants marched under the slogan "We Want God," words from an old Polish religious song that President Donald Trump quoted during a visit to Warsaw earlier this year. Speakers spoke of standing against liberals and defending Christian values.