Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Communist nations in Eastern Europe treat their former citizens who have emigrated to the West like lost souls at best and traitors at worst. A notable exception is Poland. The 19-month-old regime of Edward Gierek has actively encouraged friendly ties between "Polonia," as the Polish Diaspora is known, and the Polish People's Republic. That campaign is being intensified this summer as Poland faces a special tourist boom: emigres and their descendants returning to the old country as visitors...
...policy of being friendly to Poles abroad is the Society for Liaison with Polonia, which sponsors an expanding number of cultural and educational exchanges, historical celebrations, tourist attractions and retirement plans. In effect, the Polonia Society's programs are a giant, state-run public relations venture, which the Polish government uses to make its peace with the approximately 1,500,000 native-born Poles living in other countries-many of whom fled when the Communists gained power after World War II-and the millions more of Polish descent whose parents and grandparents were forced to emigrate because of poverty...
...Polonia Society's projects overtly propagandize for Communism. Instead, most are clearly intended to cash in on the good will of Polish emigres by inducing them to spend their hard currency in Poland and lobby for better Polish trade opportunities in their adopted lands...
Many of the schemes, particularly those that benefit Poland's depressed economy, are pitched toward the 12 million people of Polish extraction in the U.S. In order to help handle this summer's record number of Polish-American tourists (officials expect as many as 30,000), the Polish airline...
...game make Bobby Fischer look like an Eagle Scout. Arrogance? World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1927-35, 1937-46), a Soviet expatriate renowned for his slashing attacks, was a Nazi collaborator who wrote a series of articles claiming that Jews spoiled the purity of chess. Once he appeared at the Polish border and declared: "I am Alekhine, chess champion of the world. I have a cat named Chess...