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Life in communist Poland - personal relations [412]
I liked my life in "communist" Poland. The only flag I ever saw was the Polish red and white. The US Embassy had that beautiful American flag, not the LGBT fake rainbow crap. Use Google Maps if you want to see that embassy today. Make sure your barf bag is close...
We were not indoctrinated. If they tried, it didn't work.
Nobody was celebrating mental disorders with parades. We knew how to define "a woman". There were only two genders. Girls were not having their breasts removed because they liked to play with their brothers' toy trucks.
The Red Army was protecting us from the US kind of freedom, democracy, and a million deaths like in Korea. We were not afraid to say things the way American students are today.
We were not afraid to go for a walk at night. Justice was swift and being on drugs was not a mitigating condition. My tuition from K to MSEE was zero. And so were the hospital bills.
Nobody in my family belonged to PZPR. Yet, we lived in the best part of Warsaw on Nowy Swiat 47. My father used to attend conferences in France. In 1975, I met my parents in Paris. I left in 1966 at high noon. On a train. Nobody was shooting...
I was able to buy the New York Herald Tribune without any difficulties. I would visit the US Embassy regularly and nobody from the Polish KGB asked me why. Today, that embassy is less inviting than American prisons with their waiting rooms and restrooms.
For your convenience, here is the US Embassy in Warsaw:
google.com/maps/@52.2245098,21.0240022,3a,17y,251.87h,104.96t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbPEfNF59QpRTKxoUJYGNIg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DbPEfNF59QpRTKxoUJYGNIg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D77.825066%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
And the Embassy of the Russian Federation:
google.com/maps/@52.2108063,21.0274719,3a,15y,243.61h,110.37t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAGkwOTmtcf9UInzHR4ELLw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DAGkwOTmtcf9UInzHR4ELLw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D338.4076%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
Fvcking unbelievable...