"Polish game evokes regime’s hardships" by Associated Press / January 26, 2011
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s state-run National Remembrance Institute has created the new game — called “Kolejka,’’ which means queue or line — to help young Poles understand the hardships of life under communism.
In the game, players are tasked with buying a number of goods, but a lack of deliveries, shortages, and the connections competitors have to communist authorities turn the task into a string of frustrations....
Players try to buy basic goods but food supplies run out before they reach the counter....
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You may not be playing a game from the past, Poles.
Btw, I am of Polish heritage so I can poke fun.
"In twist, Poland protests Belarus crackdown" by Will Englund, Washington Post / February 5, 2011
WARSAW — With an authoritarian crackdown in Belarus showing no sign of letting up, neighboring Poland has emerged as a vocal counterweight to what strikes many here as a frightening return to a Soviet past.
In a twist on history, Warsaw, itself once a center of repression and of stirring resistance, has taken the lead in calling for a strong and concerted European response to the raids, arrests, and other heavy-handed measures taken over the past month by a regime led by Alexander Lukashenko, who was recently sworn in to a new five-year term as president.
With Belarus next door, Poland’s concerns are immediate and deeply felt — even more so than those of the United States, which has sharply criticized Lukashenko and boycotted his inauguration but has not made the crackdown in Belarus a priority....
U.S. kicking one away there, 'eh?
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