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Just after noon each day, Henryka Ptasinska, 33, collects meals for herself and her six children from the soup kitchen at 10 Inwalidow Square in the leafy Warsaw suburb of Zoliborz. She is one of 250 regulars at the serving hatch in the white-tiled kitchen, opened to alleviate some of the pain produced by Poland's forced march from a centrally planned communist system to a free- market society. Her lunchtime routine shows that the success of that transformation still hangs in the balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Living with Shock Therapy | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...North of Kierbedz Bridge there appears to be nothing left at all. There was no vestige of the Royal Palace - just empty space where it was. The Old City is a heap of ruins and Zoliborz, the residential suburb, is entirely destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Warsaw: Deathly Stillness | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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