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De-communisation in Poland? [38]
Just yesterday in a social chat someone mentioend that many former Solidarity freedom-fighters now ride trams whislt ex-nomeneklatura people prefer BMWs. I realise that was an over-simplification. In actuality, some fo the ex-'S' activists ride buses or walk and the ex-commie types often fancy the Lexus, Mecedes, Alfa-Romeo, Infiniti, Volvo or Audi makes...
you can't punish the ordinary Party members
You'll notice only the heads of party cells would have to pay damages, not rank-and-file PZPR members. Rank-and-filers would only be barred from public office and administrative posts for a specific length of time. How else could one have swept away the nomenklatura leftovers so the SLD could not have stood for election in 1993. How else to preclude a situation like the one we have today with ex-commies running the show in many state treasury companies and other areas of the economy. No, you won't fuind any links on this. It's a tight-lipped oldboy web.
But you haven't answered my main question: if true decommunisation had been carried out, where would those who wanted to leave Poland most likely go: Cuba, Russian Federation, Belarus or other ex-soviet republic, Vietnam? (Poland was not in the EU in the early 1990s.)
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