1) Wroclaw, July 1982. The “Moda Polska” clothes shop in the Market Square. A long queue of people waits to be allowed in. This was a “high end” fashion store in those days, photo by Chris Niedenthal / ForumEarly 1960s 1st May parade. Attendance was mandatory. Portraits of Brezhniev, Krushchev, Gomółka and Zawadzki. Warsaw, photo by Zbyszek Siemaszko / ForumChocolate-like products. Upper one is titled ‘a greasy mass product’, photo by Adam Golec / Agencja GazetaCome In, a popular communist TV series, photo by Polfilm / East NewsLech Walesa relaxing at home with family (wife Danuta, their 3 children, mother-in-law Feliksa Golos), in Gdansk, November 1980, photo by Chris Niedenthal / Forum1) A women pushing a saturator, Warsaw, 1959. photo by Zbyszek Siemaszko / National Digital ArchivesWarsaw, 1978. Phones, advertising photo. The deficit of private phones was a result of poor infrastructure, and low priority of the communist regime. People often had to wait 20 years to get a phone installed. photo by Michał Browarski / ForumA family meeting in the sixties in communist Poland. Photo Zbyszko Siemaszko : ForumThe kitchen of a milk bar in the seventies, photo by Tomek Sikora : ForumStudents enjoying a meal in a milk bar in 50s Warsaw. photo Zbyszko Siemaszko : ForumChris Niedenthal, Warsaw, December 1981. First day of Martial Law. Kino Moskwa screens Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”, photo: press materialPolish communist security troops use tear gas during clashes with anti-martial-law demonstrators in the Warsaw Old Town.SOURCE TEODOR WALCZAK:CORBIS
