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Article: Poland embraces past while moving ahead.(BERLIN WALL)(20 YEARS AFTER THE FALL)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
KRAKOW, Poland -- A black Trabant pulled up in front of the Sheraton hotel and its driver helped passengers out of the boxy, cut-rate car that remains a symbol of communism two decades after its collapse.
The communist tour of Krakow was over. The 23-year-old guide, Eryk Grasela, had taken a Washington Times reporter and photographer to Nowa Huta, a suburb built in the 1950s as a model communist city and counterpoint to bourgeois old Krakow, long known as Poland's cultural capital.
While other former communist countries have tried to erase many Cold War memories since they became democracies in ...