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Perspectives on Poland: The Big Freeze

Mon, Feb 08 2010 13:45 CET

byJamie Stokes - Krakow Post

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Perspectives on Poland: The Big Freeze

It’s been snowing. Other things may have happened but nobody can be sure since these things have immediately been buried under six feet of icy precipitation. There are strange humpy white shapes scattered all over the country that may or may not conceal fascinating news stories. For now, Poland’s television news programmes are left with two alternatives: extreme close-ups of politicians being duplicitous or stories about snow. They have mostly gone with the snow or, where possible, extreme close-ups of politicians lying about snow.

Us Brits tend to believe the Poles must know what they are doing when it comes to near-Arctic winters. For no logical reason, most Britons assume Poland is more or less glacial all the time. I suspect this has more to do with vaguely recollected Cold War propaganda about the chilly discomfort of living behind the Iron Curtain than a firm grounding in the meteorology of continental climates. Even when we find out this is not strictly true, we still expect Poles to be able to handle blizzards and similar snow-related hazards without a whimper.

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