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Poland in the 80's Through the Lens of French/Swiss Photographer


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2018 Dec 14, 8:10am   1,142 views  3 comments

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https://imgur.com/gallery/960KNrY



Lots of fun images which match my experience there in 1988 when I visited my grandmother's village of Tuliszków.

The people in the image above could totally be the 2nd cousins I visited back then.

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1   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Dec 14, 12:27pm  

Very backward and poor: farmers still using horses, living in tiny wooden houses, with plastic furniture and walls covered with religious images.
It changed a lot in 30yrs. Capitalism and Europe.
3   BayArea   2018 Dec 15, 10:06pm  

Thanks for sharing Patrick.

I left Gdańsk in 1984 as a child. It was rough times then, the waiting in line with coupons for bread/milk, government limitations on housing size, having a grandfather taken from his home in the middle of the night for being accused of bad mouthing the government...

Things improved dramatically over the years however. Sometimes I wonder how life would be if I never left. At least I wouldn’t be competing against Indians and Chinese for housing in San Jose ?.

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