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ISSUE 6, October

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- Introduction about communism in Poland- Living in the past- Communism in Poland- Communism in Tenerife

- An interview with a grandmother- Europe without borders

- Living in the past-continuation- Layout and modifications of the Berlin Wall

- Joke time

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Communism st art e d in Poland in

1944 . I t was a f ter the Second

World War when t he Russ ian army

was going t o Poland a nd t ook all of

the territory.

...i n t hi s edit ion:

Everything about Communism in t he world

- Unfortunately not.. It was

ve ry difficult to go abroad or

com e to Poland. Only coun-

tries that were part of the

Eastern bloc could mov e to

their countries . It was notposs ible to go abroad on

holiday as today.

GrandmacolouleavePoladurincomnist times?/


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Number 6

Mr. Mueller is an author. Ourpupil made an interview withhim. He gave us informationabout his book with the titleLivin`in the past. It is notpublished until yet.We shorten

the interview.

.1971 I was on a trip toBerlin with a group of youngboys and girls of our parish.We want to fly from Hanoverto Berlin. If the young blondgirl sitting next to me crossedmy eyes , I had this kind offeeling again and again. It wasthe first time I want to attractmy Pretty girl. But the loud-speaker always gave us im-

portant information about theBoeing 727 and why our Ger-man Lufthansa was not al-lowed to go to Berlin. Prettygirl was more important than

..West-Berlin our sting in thecommunist world.. The loud-speaker was really annoying.I was sixteen.Suddenly a bigbang. Air crash -???

Everybody was terrified.Pretty woman was crying.The loudspeaker starts itsexplanation: Dont be fright-ened, the Reds (communists)wants to say hello, that is ourcountry and West-Berlin be-longs to us. We had to passcold basements as charmingas slaughterhouses. Big sol-diers with machine guns anddogs monitored every move-ment with their stony faces.Do they hate us? One guy

had a question but he got noanswer. Only one big womanbarked: Hurry up, hurry upWe were forced to change 25West Marks/per day (todays

value 25 Euros) into theircurrency and got back 25East Marks (todays value 8Euros). A good bargain forthem. Suddenly two big po-licemen jumped to the youngmen just in front of me. Asoldier with a machine guncame very close to us. Theypulled the man behind a greycurtain. We couldnt see himanymore. What happened? Iasked a man just behind me.But he only whispered: Bequiet dont care, that hap-pens several times aday. (continued page 3)

ber 1988 there was a huge

movement in Poland, which

stopped the communism.

Workers and politi-

cians signed an

agreement. On 27th

October 1991 there

was the first free par-

liamentary election.

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

won and he was a

prime minister of no

communist government. At

present we have a paradise in

Poland in comparison with

those times. Nowa-

days people have got

everything but they do

not appreciate this.

Karolina Barglik

Different politicians per-

formed authority in Poland :

Gierek, Gomulka, Bierut and

Jaruzelski. Wojciech Jaruzel-

ski in 1981 introduced War

State. People lived in this

structure for many years but

they began to rebell. In

1980 'Solidarnosc' led by

Lech Walesa (He got the

Nobel Prize in politics) came

into being. On 18th Decem-

cow in 1936 at the begin-ning of the Spanish CivilWar.

Dolores Ibrruri, knownas La Pasionaria afterFalangists having killed alltheir children, she directedthe Communist party. Shesaid "It is better dyingstanding up than living on

your knees"The Republican defeat inApril 1939, the PCE was

The Communistparty was founded on No-vember 14th, 1921. It suf-fered severely from therepression of the dictator-ship of general MiguelPrimo de Rivera ( 1923-1930)

It was directed by Jos Dazand Dolores Ibrruri,

known as La Pasionaria)and Enrique Lister Forj,who took refuge in Mos-

persecuted by the dictator-ship of General FranciscoFranco (1939- 1975).

Santiago Carrillo was theleader of the PCE, but manymilitants separated from himfounding other similar com-munist parties in 1973. Afterthe great defeat in 1982, helost his leadership and was

expelled from the party in1985.

S oviet Re lationship

se izured power ove r

Poland. Life in Poland was

very difficult and heavy. In

1980s people bought food

or special pieces of papers.

There were long me ters

queues to buy something in

the shops. People were

intimidated and they

cou ldnt go out from

houses after 22.

Communism In Poland

Communism In Tererife

Living in the past


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page3eU-topical

Did people hav emoney?-

. Ho w w as lifelike?-

-Cou ld y o u le avePoland?

-Who overthrewcommunism?-

By K laudiaKotlarz

People had money,but the re was no

products to buy.People had to queue

to buy products.Food and othergoods were boughtor special cards and

everything was lim-ited.

People could workwherever theywanted, because thewas a lot of jobs .

- Unfortunately not.It was ve ry difficult to

go abroad or com e

to Poland. Onlycountries that were

part of the Eas ternbloc could move tothe ir countries . Itwas not poss ible togo abroad on holi-

day as today.

This is a difficultques tion, but as asym bol of the over-throw o f comm unismis regarde d unionS olidarnos cled by

Lech Wales a.

of you was arrestedas a spy. He took apicture of the wall inWest-Berlin and car-ried it in his pocket.A soldier on hiswatchtower saw thatsome days before. He will be arrested formany years. My blood was frozen. On mypostcards the wall was to be seen by dayand by night. I carried more than one withme. We burnt all the postcards and blew

A bad feeling crept over me.Welcome to the GDR just be-hind the wall. A joke?

In East Berlin the capitol city ofthe `GDR` we went into a churchand met another priest and someyoung boys and girls who werelistening very loud music in abasement. Did they really listento the music? No, they feared that

their secret service could tape ourconversation. The man in front

the ashes away. 1989 my old-est son was born. A few weekslater the Tagesschau re-ported: GDR opens borderand the people were chanting the wall must go

2009 my oldest son asked his 16 yearsold brother who visited Berlin with hisclass: Did you see the wall? No, washis answer. Do you mean this little

piece of scenery where Americansshoot a film?

. Now youust need some Euros and the

cashier greets you with a smile.Europe today is like one bigcountry and it is great fortravellers, tourists, companiesand workers. But dont throwyour passport away just yet ifyour travel outside Europe thenthe olden days still exist. Andyou might even need a visa !

Last year I travelled toGermany with my school. Igot on the coach in HighWycombe, England and gotout in Osnabrck, Germany.On the way

An interview with Klaudias grandmother ...

Living in the pastcontinuation from page 2

past on the motorway.

My teacher said that in the

old days he means before

1995 - you had to stop and

show your passport 4 or 5

times. You also had to have

four

different

currencies i n your pocket if you

wanted to buy something at the

motorway rest-stops

I travelled

through 5

countries and

crossed 4 borders,

but you woul d

not have noticed

this unless you

had seen the

signs flashing

Europe without borders

Tadeus z Mazowiecki

Lech Wales a

won the first election inPoland, after abolishing

of communism. Heecame a prime minister

of no communistgovernment. At presentwe have a paradise inPoland in comparison

with those times.Nowadays people havegot everything but theydo not appreciate this.

Mateusz C.

a Pollish hero wholeaded the workers against the com-munist government in Poland. He is

considered as a person who contrib-uted the most to the abolishment ofcommunism. He received the NobelPrize for spreading peace in the world.


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Position and course of the Berlin Wall and its border control checkpoints (1989)

The houses contained between the fences were razed and the inhabitantsrelocated, thus establishing the No Man's Land that la became known as

. The No Man's Land was covered with raked gravel, rendering footprintseasy to notice thus enabling officers to see which guards had neglected their task;[45]

it offered no cover; most important, it offered clear s of fire for the wall guards.Through the years, the Berlin Wall evolved through four versions:

1. Wire fence (1961)2. Improved wire fence (19621965)3. Concrete wall (19651975)4. (Border Wall 75) (19751989)The "fourth-generation wall", known officially as "Sttzwandelement UL12.11" (retaining wall element UL 12.11), was the final and most sophisticated ver-

sion of the Wall. Begun in 1975 and completed about 1980,

The top of the wall was lined with a smooth pipe,intended to make it more difficult to scale. It was reinforced by mesh fencing, signalfencing, anti-vehicle trenches, barbed wire, dogs on long lines, "beds of nails" underbalconies hanging over the "death strip", over 116 watchtowers, and 20 bunkers. This version of the Wall is the one most com-monly seen in photographs, and surviving fragments of in Berlin and elsewhere around the world are generally piecesof the fourth-generation Wall. The layout came to resemble the inner-German border in most technical aspects, except the Ber-lin Wall had no landmines and no Spring-guns.German team

The Berlin Wall was more than 140 kilometers (87 mi) long. In June 1962, a s ec -

o nd, paralle l fe nce s ome 100 meters (110 yd) farther into Eas t German territorywas built.

it was co ns truc ted from45,000 s eparate s ections o f reinforced co ncrete, each 6 meters (12 ft) high

and 1.2 meters (3.9 ft) wide, and c os t 16,155,000 Eas t German Marks or abo3,638,000 Unite d S tates Dollars .

TheDeath S trip

Grenzmauer 75

JOKETIM

The Commu-

nists always

shoot in the

head, and the So-

Dad what do

communists

differ from

socialists?

- What do the U.S. and Cubahave in common?

In the U.S. and Cuba, you can'tbuy anything with pesos.

What does a Soviet optimist say?

It can't get any worse!

An American, a Czech,and a Soviet agreed tomeet. The Czech was late."Sorry for being so late,"the Czech said, "I waswaiting in line to buysome meat."

"What is a line?" theAmerican asked."What is meat?" the Sovietasked.

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Germany 4

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