It's time for an Iron Curtain image dump primarily featuring

Keep going OP, these are fantastic.

File: 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw, 1979 Poland.jpg (254KB, 1000x681px) Image search: [Google]

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All following images are from the period 1975-1979

>>1822490
What's with the grimy-looking building center-left?

>>1822435
How about stories or stories we've heard from defectors?

I knew a defector from Poland, before he left he worked as a smuggler, participating in a black market that sold gold and other very basic items they didn't have, although to them, even to have the basics would be a luxury in the 70's.

He had to escape before they killed him, so he left as a younger man without his family, barely speaking English.

He went into construction because apparently that was his high school education over there.

After a while there was a machine accident, he lost his upper ring finger, although even I didn't notice until he pointed it out. He kept working for the company he was employed with though, instead of sueing, because he genuinely enjoyed working and actually making a living by it, without the threat of being shot for it too.
One of the hardest working men I've known

File: US President Jimmy Carter in Warsaw, 1977.jpg (152KB, 1000x644px) Image search: [Google]

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I'll be back in a bit

>>1822516
wow, glad he made it out alright

File: A bite to eat, East Germany, 1982.jpg (179KB, 1000x668px) Image search: [Google]

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All of the following are from 1980-1985

File: Communist Party headquarters, Warsaw, 1980s.jpg (211KB, 1000x677px) Image search: [Google]

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lenin is watching you comrade

Wew, image limit. If you guys liked these I have a lot more, I'll probably post them later

Next time, can we get an East Germany pics thread?

>>1822560
[it ain't me by the fortunate sons playing in the distance]

>>1822506
It's probably not grime but shit like tables/shelves/flowerpots behind the windows. Because the windows are high. And these things will get put against them.

All pics here:

http://chrisniedenthal.com/en/works/

Some qts (but only a few):

http://chrisniedenthal.com/en/works?tag=women

Poland is a funny (well, sad) case in that unlike most of the other satelitte countries, it had experienced a pretty bad period during the 80s. With major civil unrest, shortages and the like. Even martial law. Meanwhile for the likes of Hungary or Czechoslovakia it was a much less retarded time than the the 70s.

>>1822435
Most of them look slightly malnourished and unhappy.

>>1822782
There is something enjoyable about thats 80's shit fashion combined with the bright light of communism.
And what looks to be a strong spring sun