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The cheeky gnomes taking over Wrocław
Cute as they may be, each statue is a nod to the Orange Alternative, an anti-Soviet resistance movement that helped bring down Poland’s oppressive communist regime in the 1980s.
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/u/AdelleChattre Dear God! I posted that a year ago, and you STILL remember it well enough to add something?!?! I have to pull out my driver's license just to remember my birthday!
Maybe they'd be more forgettable if they were just countless, imaginative, hard-working dissident Dadaesque street theater samizdat guerrilla art wee folk, but you've gotta admire the way they didn't let winning their freedom go to their head. Thanks for them!