[Aliska]

No wonder Polish women who didn't have family reponsibilities or those who had children who were grown came in mini-waves, legally (I think they got temporary visas) to do jobs most Americans wouldn't do, care for our elderly in their homes for those who had the means to spend their last days in familiar surroundings. Yanina, Hania, Vanda, Maria; I can't remember all the names of the few of them I knew and probably spelled them incorrectly.

That picture really makes you think. It's sobering and there's nothing funny about it (you probably didn't mean that literally). I always marvelled at the patience of repressed peoples while anger and resentment must have simmered beneath the surface.

Americans wouldn't tolerate such a thing. I don't know what they would do if they were shot down in the streets by machine guns for rioting. And the young, strong, and ammoral would run down those old ladies in that store and taken all of what was left . . .

[Lukasz]

No wonder Polish women who didn't have family reponsibilities or those who had children who were grown came in mini-waves, legally (I think they got temporary visas) to do jobs most Americans wouldn't do,

Most of the communist countries didn’t allowed their citizens to visit western countries. Average citizen could visit only other countries of the “communist bloc”. Beside American authorities would never give them a visa. Well even now US bureaucrats are main problem-makers. I think that we don’t need any visas to other non-third world countries and in the EU we don’t need even passports.

That picture really makes you think. It's sobering and there's nothing funny about it (you probably didn't mean that literally).

Believe me that from some perspective of time, I may consider this picture as a “funny”. Of course at that time it was not funny but frustrating.

Americans wouldn't tolerate such a thing.

In similar circumstances as the Poles, Americans would not have any choice.