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Maybe I'm a bit unusual, but I have always wanted to visit Poland.
Russia, too.
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Russia (at least Leningrad) was very un-impressive; drab, boring, lousy
food, but beautiful artwork in The Hermitage museum.. Warsaw and Crakow
were interesting and fun. Can't complain about the food, although it was
somewhat outside my experience. Polish people seemed more friendly than
Russians; more outgoing and willing to criticize governemts, both theirs
and mine. This was in 1968. I'm sure much has changed since then.
I had one bad experience in Leningrad. I'm an architecture freak and was
busily photographing buildings. Well, I snapped a pic of the local KGB
headquarters and my film was impounded. I was told that I'd be given
back the other pics, but not that one. Not wise to argue with a
uniformed man carrying a submachine gun, but I've never seen the other
pics since that day.
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