Word: kashubians
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Tusk has never been out for the quick fix. Raised in Gdansk as a member of the tiny Kashubian ethnic minority, he joined the anticommunist Solidarity movement in the 1970s while studying history at university. He was later forced by the authorities to work as a house-painter because of his dissident activities. Tusk shared with Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders an antipathy to the government that he says was self-evident: "Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around...
...Schlondorff must be conceded his nice touches. The film begins and ends with Oskar's grandmother in her Kashubian potato field, a Brechtian Mother Courage moving with time and walking in place, Mother Earth herself, born of the land and too old to travel far from her potato patch. She is an ugly, dirty (dirty-y) little woman who, quite by coincidence, spawns Oskar's mother, who in turn delivers Oskar...
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