Sunday, July 26, 2009

The memorial to some of Pilsudsi's men, on Ulica (Street) Pilsudskiego, near my room.

When I came into Cracow I used the old map we'd bought in 1974, and showed it to the people at my guest house. Of course Pilsudskiego had a different name then (during the Communist era) because Pilsudski lead the Polish Army to defeat the Red Army outside Warsaw, in 1920, and the Communists wouldn't allow a memorial or street in his name...The clerk at the guest house mentioned he has a map like mine, and pointed out other Cracow streets that were renamed after the fall of Communism (Lenin St., of course, and Pushkin St., and "The Six Year Plan St.")

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