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posts labeled poland
02.18.2009
Part of the border follows a wadable little river called the Bug, while the rest is just a notional line drawn across indifferent potato fields. Yet despite appearances, this is one of the hardest-working borders on the continent. To the west lies the European Union, a land of ginge...
You Forgot Poland
02.11.2009
The following are excerpts from an article by Juliusz Ćwieluch and Wawrzyniec Smoczyński [what a name!] that appeared on October 25, 2008 in the popular Polish newsweekly : “I was told about the attack a few hours before it started. It was at night, I got a call from vice-president Cheney” re...
TV Solidarity
04.17.2007
On September 14, 1985, residents of the Polish city of Toruń watching the popular James Bond ripoff (in which a blond and ideologically correct Citizen's Militia officer fights crime from within a series of tight sweaters) were surprised to see the show briefly overlaid with block white letters...
Balloon Pirate Radio
04.13.2007
When you're a People's Democratic Republic, having your workforce join an independent trade union is socially awkward, a bit like when guests order pizzas at your dinner party. The Communist Party was in an untenable position. Moreover, with Brezhnev's reanimated body still running ...
Attacked By Thugs
05.21.2004
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Poland Joins The European Union
05.03.2004
The announcer brought out Cold War relic Katarina Witt, who looked like she had just been removed from cryogenic storage deep in an East Berlin bunker. Witt confessed to an early crush on some Poli...