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Article: THE SCARS OF POLLUTION IRON CURTAIN RISES TO REVEAL DIRT, DEATH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 17, 1989
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First of five articles.
The Soviet Union and its East bloc allies have been keeping a
dirty little secret for more than 30 years.
They hid evidence of how acrid emissions from cars without
catalytic converters and factories without filters were eroding
their most cherished monuments. In Krakow, that evidence is locked
in a courtyard behind the Church of St. Peter and Paul, which has
become the burial ground for 17th century statues that survived
invasions by Swedish kings and Austrian emperors, by Hitler and
Stalin, only to have their noses nibbled off and eyes eaten out by
pollution.
They espoused Marxist dicta on the harmony between man and
nature. In truth, while scientists ...