Some memories from communist Poland 🇵🇱 in 80's, when over 500'000 Poles desperately used *any* means available to escape the country. Many of them escaped through Austria, where they requested asylum and waited for months:
> I was with my husband, our kid had to stay in Poland with my parents as a hostage. In #communism families were not allowed to spend holidays abroad together. When Security Service saw we're not returning, they took away food coupons from my parents
> In Vienna we met a Polish saleswoman trading towels on Mexicoplatz. She was a director of a store in Poland, who took all store's supply to Vienna to sell it for profit.
> Camps were overcrowded by Eastern European refugees. Austrian authorities were furious when US and other countries were sending them rice and flour, when the only thing they needed was to accept some refugees to off-load the camps.
