Edited sentence: " In 2008, he demanded an official inquiry into the jury decisions of the 1980 competition, however, the Chopin Institute refused to reopen the case.I was told I should wait a year, for the Tchaikovsky competition, when I would have the first prize guaranteed.My decision to participate was not at all welcome.Pogorelić later accused in a one-sided interview in 1993, claiming that "The Soviet Bloc authorities had decided months before the competition that it was politically necessary to have a North Vietnamese winner