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Article: Don't tell the old comrades ...but there's a golfing revolution behind the irons curtain; Florida? The Algarve? No, it's Krakow Valley Golf and Country Club in Poland.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Peter Swain
The grass is getting greener on the Eastern side. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, golf and property ownership, both detested by the communists, are prospering in Eastern Europe.
'Golf is a bourgeois sport.' So says Hugo Chavez, the rabidly Left-wing President of Venezuela, though he is only echoing what hatchet-faced Stalinists have said for years.
Communist regimes across Eastern Europe had regarded the game as the epitome of Western capitalist decadence. Bertie Wooster, American Presidents and James Bond played golf. Comrade Khrushchev did not.
Now that golf is invariably coupled with holiday-home ...