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The nostalgia for communism (and I do mean real old-school communism, not that strawman type of communism/socialism that you can hear about on FOX) often gives birth to weird social experiments, including ones of the Big Brother TV-show type of format. And it's not just mobile phones that are not allowed in, but other things that didn't exist in times not so long ago.

How did the parents of today's generation of Eastern Europeans live under communism? And does what they remember of their childhood really correspond to reality? Those are the questions that two young journalists from Poland asked when they started their experiment. Izabela Meyza and Witold Szablowski decided to spend half a year living exactly as their parents had lived in the 80s.

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