Cash-strapped Poles nostalgic for their communist past

dArKeR

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Sun Mar-20-05 10:58 PM
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Cash-strapped Poles nostalgic for their communist past

When the communist bloc crumbled 15 years ago, no one thought the Poles, frequent political scandals have made the communist past seem less unattractive to many Poles than it once did.

Now the Gierek era of the 1970s is in fashion, much as the clothes of the time are back in the shops.

Gone are the days when young people could irritate their parents by wearing T-shirts with communist symbols like the hammer and sickle.

They have been replaced with fond memories of the time when the state took care of everything, when the future was secure.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/03/21/2003247193

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iamjoy

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Sun Mar-20-05 11:04 PM
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1. This Is Almost Funny

In fact, one of the sketch comedy shows once did a routine of people living in post-communist Russia, and they were talking nostalgically about the time of Soviet rule, and then all started singing a version of, "Those Were The Days"

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aneerkoinos

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Mon Mar-21-05 09:41 AM
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2. Whad does this tell about capitalism?

That majority of people in the soviet block, with all of it's faults and oppression, still had it better than now under unfettered capitalism of neoliberal market fundamentalism...

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dArKeR

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Mon Mar-21-05 10:49 AM
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3. Urge to drop democracy grows in Latin America

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/06/28/2003176910

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