On forgetting communism

Our receptionist at the hostel left us with an interesting though this morning: culture is new here.
While under communism, culture was practically nonexistent. People didn't discuss much on phones, wrote brief letters and were careful who they talked to. The KGB was always watching and you never knew who would talk. Books were new for her, so were coloring books and many toys. But since then, Krakow has exploded with culture and people have all but forgotten communism, even grossly so. According to her, many poles go shopping to buy things just to buy, gossip freely like they never could, and are helping immigrants come to Poland since poles suffered their same fate. Thought that was interesting.

Sidenote: no pictures are posted yet because none of the computers will take my photos from the camera. I will find a way!