Post by Bonobo on Dec 24, 2019 8:17:40 GMT 1
There is another place where you can see Christmas from communist times.
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Now Wrocław of 1970s. Is nearly 50 years enough to be called far past?
Check their interesting site for more photos and comments:
www.wroclaw.pl/en/christmas-in-wroclaw-in-archive-photographs-photos
We are taking you on a journey back in time to see Christmas window displays and street decorations, children in skating rinks and skaters in the moat. These archive pics illustrating the city in the 1970s and taken by Wroclaw photographers Stanisław Kokurewicz and Zbigniew Nowak are available at the courtesy of the Remembrance and Future Centre in Wroclaw.
Jarosław Maliniak, PhD, Head of the Archive Section at the Remembrance and Future Centre in Wroclaw, elaborates on what Christmas was like in Wroclaw in the 1970s and what was considered a luxury at the time. One of the most popular slogans of the 1970s was this: 'For Poland to grow in power and for people to be wealthier'. The nation was decreed to enjoy prosperity and luxury at Christmas, despite the name being banned from official usage. Apart from traditional Christmas trees and carp, Christmas in the 1970s still brings back the memory of fragrant oranges. Right from the very beginning of December, television and radio would keep their audiences posted on the shipments of bananas and oranges slowly arriving in Poland. Polish people, who considered the fruit exotic, had their first opportunity to taste them. There were also emergencies, e.g. in 1973, the "Wieczór Wrocławia" daily wrote about unreliable chickens that forced the authorities to import eggs from Czechoslovakia. First Christmas Eves for lonely people were organised. One such Eve was held at the Bachus WInery in 1971. Guests were offered three dinner sets. The first set included herring in oil, carp in aspic, borscht, pierogi and kutia. The second set consisted of stuffed carp a la Juive, eel, mushroom soup and noodles with poppy seeds. The third combined stuffed pike, turkey in Malaga, borscht and boeuf strogonow. Each set on the menu cost ca. 100 PLN.
polandsite.proboards.com/post/40001
Now Wrocław of 1970s. Is nearly 50 years enough to be called far past?
Check their interesting site for more photos and comments:
www.wroclaw.pl/en/christmas-in-wroclaw-in-archive-photographs-photos
We are taking you on a journey back in time to see Christmas window displays and street decorations, children in skating rinks and skaters in the moat. These archive pics illustrating the city in the 1970s and taken by Wroclaw photographers Stanisław Kokurewicz and Zbigniew Nowak are available at the courtesy of the Remembrance and Future Centre in Wroclaw.
Jarosław Maliniak, PhD, Head of the Archive Section at the Remembrance and Future Centre in Wroclaw, elaborates on what Christmas was like in Wroclaw in the 1970s and what was considered a luxury at the time. One of the most popular slogans of the 1970s was this: 'For Poland to grow in power and for people to be wealthier'. The nation was decreed to enjoy prosperity and luxury at Christmas, despite the name being banned from official usage. Apart from traditional Christmas trees and carp, Christmas in the 1970s still brings back the memory of fragrant oranges. Right from the very beginning of December, television and radio would keep their audiences posted on the shipments of bananas and oranges slowly arriving in Poland. Polish people, who considered the fruit exotic, had their first opportunity to taste them. There were also emergencies, e.g. in 1973, the "Wieczór Wrocławia" daily wrote about unreliable chickens that forced the authorities to import eggs from Czechoslovakia. First Christmas Eves for lonely people were organised. One such Eve was held at the Bachus WInery in 1971. Guests were offered three dinner sets. The first set included herring in oil, carp in aspic, borscht, pierogi and kutia. The second set consisted of stuffed carp a la Juive, eel, mushroom soup and noodles with poppy seeds. The third combined stuffed pike, turkey in Malaga, borscht and boeuf strogonow. Each set on the menu cost ca. 100 PLN.
