Word: gdansk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other flourishing samizdat periodicals include Bratniak (Fraternity), a student publication produced in the port city of Gdansk, Postep (Progress), a magazine devoted to the problems of Poland's farmers, and Puls (Pulse), a literary journal from Lodz that was devoted this month to official censorship in the Polish movie industry...
...addition to the Warsaw operation, the government has permitted similar gieldy samochodowe (automobile exchanges) in Gdansk, Wroclaw and Lodz. For some Sunday salesmen, business could not be better. At the Warsaw mart, one enterprising Pole had already sold five cars for profits ranging from $150 to $1,000. He needs the money. In the best capitalist tradition, he is working his way through college...
...Soviet troops in the country since 1968 kind of putting a damper on things. But in Poland and Romania as well, a lot of people I spoke with this summer seemed to find the "Eternal Brotherhood With the Soviet Union" propaganda approach somewhat heavyhanded. A Polish student in Gdansk (known in history books as Danzig) told me a joke that is currently making the rounds among his friends. An orange is rolling on the Polish-Soviet border, and two border guards, one Russian and one Polish, find it simultaneously. The Pole claims that it is on the Polish side...
Rosovsky was born in the free city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1927 of Russian-Jewish parents...
...born in the free city of Danzig (now called Gdansk, Poland) in 1972 of Russian-Jewish parentage. He is the first Jew ever to hold the position of dean of the Faculty...