“...Didn’t have to worry about the AIDS back then, either...”
Not in the early 80s, no. It was strictly a queer-male disease. Somewhere along the way it passed into the bi-world, and then into the normal world.
There’s a great HBO movie from circa 1988 “And The Band Played On” where they tracked it back to a Patient Zero and showed the genesis of it.
RE Walesa:
One hell of a guy.
I worked with a Polish guy that got out of Poland during the whole Solidarity uprising. His statement: “If we had guns like you Americans have, we would not have been a communist country for long.” True story.
“Not in the early 80s, no. It was strictly a queer-male disease. Somewhere along the way it passed into the bi-world, and then into the normal world.”
RE; And The Band Played On. Yeah, that showed “Patient Zero”, the flaming fag flight attendant.
The Poles must look at the USA of today and say “WTF?”, like most of the rest of the civilized world does.
We need a Lech and a Pinochet.
Ah, the modern age...