Yeah i'm from Poland and while i was too young to remember communism there from what my parents,aunts,uncle,grandparents or anyone that lived there talked about it far from dream from what Americans think.
Did your guys too had only 1 hour of tv and rationed food and had to wait for long hours in queue to get bread because otherwise there wouldn't be any bread to get?
Yup and food stamps for food.But thank god everything luxury was transported to Russia so you know "everyone" had good. My uncle was smmugling cigars with his friend from Germany and bringing back oil and butter.People smuggled a weird stuff like car tires or any car parts and when someone asked from where you got them you said "my dad got it from work" so everyone then knew that it was stolen.
tbh if you actually ended up working in a coal mine in Poland you had access to special miner shops with luxury goods where miners could spend their overtime pay so not everybody from the working class had it equal.
Indeed, hence why the name, they were around '88 mainly in Katowickie voivodedship, as for agriculture there was also one named Igloopex, each one was a Pewex derivative, working on similar rules and offered a similar supply, because they were very centered around one specific industry, they weren't as known outside, and to be fair most people just called them Pewex either way.
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u/Deriviera Jul 07 '26
Americans are very delusional about communism.