Sunday, February 6, 2011

Polish Punts

Obviously, they go backwards, ha-ha.

"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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Related: Record world food prices spur warning  

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 felteven 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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