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PRL Nostalgia
In modern Polish culture there is nostalgia for some aspects of life in the Polish People's Republic The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), and also often simply known as Poland, was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland. ... (, PRL), the communist period of the country's history between 1947 and 1989. As with other manifestations of communist nostalgia, for people who lived during the period of the PRL, the two major factors that cause PRL nostalgia are a dissatisfaction with the present and memories of a happily recollected past. Businesses were quick to respond to the phenomenon by renewing the manufacture of products from PRL times, such as warm ice cream, Polo-Cockta, podpiwek, Junak motorcycles, and Ludwik laundry detergent.
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PL, P.L., Pl, or .pl may refer to: Businesses and organizations Government and political * Partit Laburista, a Maltese political party * Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006), a Brazilian political party * Liberal Party (Moldova), a Moldovan political party * Liberal Party (Rwanda), a Rwandan political party * Parlamentarische Linke, a parliamentary caucus in Germany * Patriotic League (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Bosnian: ''Patriotska Liga''), a military organisation of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Philippine Legislature, a legislature that existed in the Philippines from 1907 to 1935 * Progressive Labor Party (United States), a United States communist party Sports leagues * Palestine League, the top Palestinian football league * Premier League, the top English football league * Pacific League, one of the two leagues in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball * Pioneer Baseball League, a Rookie league in American Minor League Baseball * Pioneer Football League, NCAA FCS conferenc ...
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Polish Culture
The culture of Poland () is the product of its Geography of Poland, geography and distinct historical evolution, which is closely connected to History of Poland, an intricate thousand-year history. Poland has a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic majority, and Religion in Poland, religion plays an important role in the lives of many Polish people. The unique character of Polish culture developed as a result of its geography at the confluence of various European regions. It is theorised and speculated that ethnic Poles are the combination of descendants of West Slavs and people indigenous to the region including Celts, Balts and Germanic tribes which were gradually Polonization, Polonized after Poland's Baptism of Poland, Christianization by the Catholic Church in the 10th century. Over time Polish culture has been profoundly influenced by its interweaving ties with the Germanic languages, Germanic, Baltic States, Baltic, Jews, Jewish, Latinate and to a lesser extent; Byzantine Empire ...
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The word ''nostalgia'' is a neoclassical compound derived from Greek language, Greek, consisting of (''nóstos''), a Homeric word meaning "homecoming", and (''álgos''), meaning "pain"; the word was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of Depression (mood), melancholy—in the early modern period, it became an important Trope (literature), trope in Romanticism. Nostalgia is associated with a longing for the past, its personalities, possibilities, and events, especially the "good old days" or a "warm childhood". There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, for people to view the past more positively and the future more negatively. When applied to one's beliefs about a society or institution, this is called ...
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Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), and also often simply known as Poland, was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million near the end of its existence, it was the second most-populous communist government, communist and Eastern Bloc country in Europe. It was also where the Warsaw Pact was founded. The largest city and capital was Warsaw, followed by the industrial city of Łódź and cultural city of Kraków. The country was bordered by the Baltic Sea to the north, the Soviet Union to the east, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia to the south, and East Germany to the west. The Polish People's Republic was a unitary state with a Marxist–Leninist government established in the country after the Red Army's takeover of Polish territory from Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), German occupation in ...
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Communist Nostalgia
Communist nostalgia, also called communism nostalgia or socialist nostalgia, is the nostalgia in various post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia for the prior communist states.Bartmanski, DominikSuccessful icons of failed time: rethinking post-communist nostalgia ''Acta sociologica'', vol. 54. № 3. 2011, pp. 213—231, . Examples of such nostalgia can be observed in East Germany, Poland, the former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Albania, and Slovakia. Businesses have commercialized and commodified communist nostalgia in the form of communist chic and other commodities and products reminiscent of the former era. Insight Dominik Bartmanski notes that after the anti-communist revolutions of 1989, the specific perspectives of the development remained unclear for some time, they were expressed in generic terms such as "return to Europe", "to Western values" and the like. This resulted in utopian expecta ...
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Warm Ice Cream
Warm ice cream () is a Polish dessert made of egg white-based mousse topped by syrup, chocolate, or other topping, and presented in a waffle cup, resembling soft serve ice cream, and as such giving name to the dessert. Relatively cheap, it is also high in calories. The Polish weekly ''Wprost'' writes that warm ice creams were an invention of nutritionists of the Polish People's Republic, one of ersatz foods, along with Polo-Cockta. Its production was renewed in modern Poland as part of PRL nostalgia. Similar chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, including German '' Schokoküsse'', Danish '' Flødeboller'', and the Israeli '' Krembo'' were also called "warm ice cream" in Poland. In Hungary a similar dessert is called ''télifagyi'' ("winter ice cream Winter ice cream ( or ' ) is a Hungary, Hungarian confectionery similar in appearance to ice cream in a Ice cream cone, cone, but traditionally having ganache or a similar kind of sweet cream filling with usually a chocolate-Co ...
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Polo-Cockta
Polo-Cockta (sometimes written as ''Polo Cockta'' or ''Polo-Cocta'') is a Polish cola drink introduced in the 1970s. Polo-Cockta was introduced as a substitute for the original Coca-Cola, which was unavailable in Polish shops due to limits on exports from the US to soviet bloc countries. At first it was based on Cockta, a very popular drink from Slovenia (then SFR Yugoslavia). Polo-Cockta was discontinued during the 1980s, but has been revived for a few years by a private company Zbyszko which acquired all the rights to the brand, reacting to the ever-popular demand for PRL-stylised products, an element of " PRL nostalgia". The taste of Polo-Cockta is sometimes described as a mixture of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Pepsi is a Carbonated water, carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor, manufactured by PepsiCo which serves as its flagship product. In 2023, Pepsi was the second most valuable soft drink brand worldwide behind Coca-Cola; the two share a long .... For a while Polo-Cock ...
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Podpiwek
Podpiwek is a Polish and Lithuanian Soft drink, non-alcoholic beverage (even though it contains a small amount of alcohol, about 0.5%). It is usually made from grain coffee, hops, yeast, water and sugar, which undergo fermentation. Often created as a byproduct during beer production, it was a common drink of women and children. Famous brands * Podpiwek Kuyavia, kujawski * Podpiwek Jędrzej * Podpiwek Lubusz Voivodeship, Lubuski * Podpiwek Obolon (company), Obołoń * Podpiwek Warmia, warmiński See also * Kvass * Hardaliye * Malt beer References * * References

Non-alcoholic drinks Polish drinks Fermented drinks Soft drinks Lithuanian drinks {{Lithuania-cuisine-stub ...
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SFM Junak
Junak is a brand of Polish motorcycles, the only four-stroke engine, four-stroke models produced in Poland between World War II and the Revolutions of 1989. The name literally means "brave young man". Produced by Szczecińska Fabryka Motocykli (SFM) (en.: ''Szczecin Factory Motorcycles'') in three variants: M07, M10 and B20. History During 1956–1965, a total of 91,400 Junak motorcycles were produced. Several models were produced, namely: 10,000 tourist M07, rally M07-R and cross M07-C models, 2500 three-wheeled B20's, 8500 sidecars type WB1 and W03 while the rest were M10 models. The Junak frame was produced by SFM in Szczecin while the engines were made by ZSM in Łódź. During the transition from model M07 to M10 from 1960 to 1961 about 20,000 M10 models possessed some characteristics of the M07 model such as the headlight housing. These are called the transition or in Polish “przejsciowka” models. The Junak was designed in 1951–1952 in ''Biuro Konstrukcyjne Przemys ...
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Museum Of The Polish People's Republic
The Museum of the Polish People's Republic () was a museum in Kraków, Poland devoted to documenting the forty-year history of the communist People's Republic of Poland (PRL). The museum had originally been established in 2008 as a department of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw. However, in November 2012 the city council of Kraków decided to set up an independent museum in its place, run by the city itself. The new museum opened in the old Kino Światowid ("Svetovid Cinema"), a formerly state-owned cinema in the Nowa Huta Nowa Huta (, literally "The New Ironworks") is the easternmost district of Kraków, Poland. With more than 200,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most populous areas of the city. Until 1990, the neighbouring districts were considered expansions o ... district of Kraków, where it ran exhibitions and offered guided tours through the nuclear bunkers of Nowa Huta. The museum was closed in 2019 and was replaced by the Nowa Huta Museum on the same site. N ...
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Nostalgia For The Polish People's Republic
In modern Polish culture there is nostalgia for some aspects of life in the Polish People's Republic (, PRL), the communist period of the country's history between 1947 and 1989. As with other manifestations of communist nostalgia, for people who lived during the period of the PRL, the two major factors that cause PRL nostalgia are a dissatisfaction with the present and memories of a happily recollected past. Businesses were quick to respond to the phenomenon by renewing the manufacture of products from PRL times, such as warm ice cream, Polo-Cockta, podpiwek, Junak motorcycles, and Ludwik laundry detergent."Products Create Market for Communist Nostalgia in Eastern Europe"
''Spiegel Online'', February 28, 2005
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Culture Of Poland
The culture of Poland () is the product of its geography and distinct historical evolution, which is closely connected to an intricate thousand-year history. Poland has a Roman Catholic majority, and religion plays an important role in the lives of many Polish people. The unique character of Polish culture developed as a result of its geography at the confluence of various European regions. It is theorised and speculated that ethnic Poles are the combination of descendants of West Slavs and people indigenous to the region including Celts, Balts and Germanic tribes which were gradually Polonized after Poland's Christianization by the Catholic Church in the 10th century. Over time Polish culture has been profoundly influenced by its interweaving ties with the Germanic, Baltic, Jewish, Latinate and to a lesser extent; Byzantine and Ottoman cultures as well as in continual dialogue with the many other ethnic groups and minorities living in Poland. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of P ...
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