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Stories From The Eastern West by Culture.pl

Sep 30, 202000:28:20Society & Culture

As much as The People’s Republic of Poland may seem a distant country hidden behind the Iron Curtain, it was an open and welcoming one... towards other socialist states. Student exchange programmes were one of the many w...

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