Naked girls wrestle in muddy water and straddle each other at Woodstock music festival in Poland

SCANTILY-CLAD revellers at a Polish music festival escaped the heatwave sweeping across Europe by splashing around in a giant pond of muddy water.

The festival-goers were pictured getting down and dirty at the "Woodstock Festival Poland" held to celebrate diversity and tolerance.

And many of the fun-loving youngsters took off their bras at the under-fire celebrations.

The event has faced pressure recently from the conservative anti-migrant government.

The festival is taking place this year in a spirit of defiance due to new restrictions and pressure put on it by the conservative pro-Catholic ruling party, Law and Justice.

The Interior Ministry recently classified the event in Kostrzyn nad Odra, a town near the German border, as "high risk," forcing organisers to hire more security forces.

Warsaw has refused the security reinforcements which Germany has provided in past years.

The three-day event features rock concerts and tolerance-promoting events, including anti-racism workshops and a soccer tournament organized by Never Again, a group struggling against a rising mood of bigotry and right-wing extremism in the country.

Several leading members of the political opposition also showed up Thursday.

In its 23rd year, Woodstock is the creation of a liberal social campaigner, Jerzy Owsiak, who has butted heads with the government.

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Owsiak has said the event was open to migrants living in Germany, prompting the ruling party to tweet in June: "Do you really want to have an event in Poland with the participation of Muslim immigrants?"

Martin Gorholt, a Social Democratic Party politician from a German region bordering Poland, said it was "irrational" for the Polish government to declare the festival a high-risk event and then refuse German help.

"I believe this is an attempt to throw sand into the gears of the great civil society organisation which is behind the festival so that it will not be as strong and large as it has been so far," Gorholt told Germany's Inforadio.

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