Poland: Martial Law Remembered

Posted 13 December 2006 20:33 GMT

Countries	Poland
Topics	Freedom of Speech, Food, Governance, History, Human Rights, Protest, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics

Poland

The beatroot writes what the martial law in Poland felt - and tasted - like: “Martial Law, Poland, December 13, 1981 […] tasted like plastic. There is an evocative free gift with this week’s edition of Newsweek Polska. It’s a little box of chocolates. Inside the period looking box are two chocolates: one is made of real chocolate; the other is made of the ersatz chocolate (czekoladopodobny) that was all most Poles could get hold of during Martial Law, a period of rationing of food stuffs.”

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