r/OldSchoolCool • u/dawidlijewski • 1d ago

1980s Successful Polish private farmer, 1980

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Agriculture was never collectivized in communist Poland, so private farms could exist. Those lucky enough to have fertile soil and good market connections could earn very good money through hard work and smart investment decisions. This farmer owns a house, a car, a dishwasher, and a color TV, and could even afford vacations in Hungary.

https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/zmywarka-w-domu-rolnika-dotarlismy-do-bohatera-sesji-zdjeciowej-z-1980-roku-6457768192861825a

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u/tohi-_ 19h ago

Wife is working the garden, kids are kids while the poor guy is fixing the Pierdolonez (again).

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u/Big-Tennis2579 15h ago

Pierdolonez 😂

Im not polish and i never heard that before, that name is literal folk art and should belong to national heritage

I also really love the pebble facades that i have only seen in Poland so far

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u/EmoInTheCreek 10h ago

There's also the style with crushed glass in it. My aunts house around Rzesow had it and I haven't seen it ever outside of Poland.

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u/Big-Tennis2579 9h ago

I believe that was factory surplus from people’s workplace and they just brought it home to be used as building materials

Very interesting, its the successor of classic vernacular folk art in industrialised modern ages. A very nice architectural study could be made on the creative uses of these techniques

Similar to Hungary, where people working in heavy industry made decorative and artistic gates from all kinds of scrap metals and wastes during the socialist times

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u/tiga_94 3h ago

crushed glass, sea shells, anything they could get hands on (I am from Ukraine)