I stayed in student dorms in Swedish university towns and plush colonial-era houses in Madrid via communist-built tower blocks on the outskirts of Wroclaw in Poland.

我曾经住在瑞典大学城的学生宿舍里，马德里一间殖民时期房子里的一张豪华沙发上，以及波兰弗罗茨瓦夫郊外的一幢公共高层住宅。

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The bar is called Pewex, the name of a chain of hard-currency stores from the communist era where Poles could buy Western products if they had the dollars.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

He wants a radical break with the cartels, sleaze and weak institutions of the post-communist era.

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