Would You Have Survived the Communist Regime in Poland?

czas_apokalipsy_poziom_1981.jpg, small, Chris Niedenthal, Warsaw, December 1981. First day of Martial Law. Kino Moskwa screens Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", photo: press material, Would You Have Survived the Communist Regime in Poland?

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Foreigners rarely visited communist Poland, and those who did visit were baffled. Everyday life for Poles seemed absolutely bizarre to outsiders. Would you be able to cope with reality if you time-travelled to the People’s Republic of Poland? Would you know what’s going on and how to behave?

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Author: Wojciech Oleksiak, 20^th August 2015.

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