Missus Mersey's Parlour: Hoorah for the Poles and their protest against ACTA

The Polish now how to bring down evil empires…

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Interesting they’ve appropriated the symbol of the Polish Underground Government during Nazi/Soviet occupation! AND that the sort of Anonymous-like group they’ve amassed to protest ACTA online is also named for the Polish Underground. Shows how seriously they take the struggle against free…

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Subtext of Polish Posters

A few have commented on how these posters don’t make sense in context of the films they were portraying. This is very true, but Its important to understand that these film posters were also being used as a form of reverse propaganda against an extremely oppressive Communist regime. It was one of the only “approved” forms of commercial art so its designers used it as a vehicle to attack their oppressors indirectly, as well as convey the general unhappiness of an entire nation. 

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Absolutely love this piece:  A sculpture in Wroclaw, Poland designed by Jerzy Kalin to commemorate victims of the Communist regime.  “At the junction of Piłsudskiego and Świdnicka Streets, we come across a group of fourteen life-sized fossilized forms. It is a monument of anonymous passers-by, whose author is Polish artist Jerzy Kalin. Among them, we find people similar to ourselves. There is a man in a hat, a mother pushing a stroller, a man carrying a bicycle inner tube, a woman with an umbrella, an old lady with a bag full of shopping. The cast bronze figures seem to descend below the surface of the sidewalk separating the busy streets and come up on the other side. Seven people stand on one side of the road descending into the sidewalk and seven people ascend from the other side. The people closest to the curb are submerged in the sidewalk to the waist with only their heads and torsos exposed. Other figures are immersed only to the knees, while still others wade only their feet in the concrete slabs. It is an invisible passage, a symbol of the changes that have occurred in Poland between the time of communism and the time of democracy. The bustle of the streets surround - the voices of passers-by, the roar of car engines, the smell of the city. Feelings so similar to those before 1989, and yet still quite different today.” Excerpt can be found here.
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Absolutely love this piece: 

A sculpture in Wroclaw, Poland designed by Jerzy Kalin to commemorate victims of the Communist regime. 

“At the junction of Piłsudskiego and Świdnicka Streets, we come across a group of fourteen life-sized fossilized forms. It is a monument of anonymous passers-by, whose author is Polish artist Jerzy Kalin. Among them, we find people similar to ourselves. There is a man in a hat, a mother pushing a stroller, a man carrying a bicycle inner tube, a woman with an umbrella, an old lady with a bag full of shopping. The cast bronze figures seem to descend below the surface of the sidewalk separating the busy streets and come up on the other side. Seven people stand on one side of the road descending into the sidewalk and seven people ascend from the other side. The people closest to the curb are submerged in the sidewalk to the waist with only their heads and torsos exposed. Other figures are immersed only to the knees, while still others wade only their feet in the concrete slabs. It is an invisible passage, a symbol of the changes that have occurred in Poland between the time of communism and the time of democracy. The bustle of the streets surround - the voices of passers-by, the roar of car engines, the smell of the city. Feelings so similar to those before 1989, and yet still quite different today.”

Excerpt can be found here.

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