35 Growing up Under Communism

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🗓️ 1 January 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We'll visit with three of Rick Steves' tour guide friends from Eastern Europe. We'll find out what it was like being raised in different types of Communist countries, and how their lives have changed since capitalism was introduced to Poland and the republics of the former Yugoslavia. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	It's been about 15 years since the fall of the wall and Eastern Europe won its freedom.
0:05.0	What was it like for the last generation to be raised under communist ideology?
0:09.0	And how are they adapting to the rapid changes in their societies today?
0:12.0	Coming up on Travel with Rick Steeves,
0:14.6	we'll take a trip down memory lane
0:16.3	with some people who grew up under communism.
0:19.3	What I remember is reading articles in newspapers that oranges for Christmas are coming to
0:25.6	Poland from our Cuban friend and that day are just one week away.
0:30.9	We'll talk with Marion Krescubich and Tina Hiti, who were raised in the former
0:35.0	Yugoslavia, and we'll chat with Kasha Deelichka, who grew up in Poland.
0:39.8	When you have already this experience back in the years of communism and when you see
0:43.8	some things which are happening in today's world it is hard not to draw this
0:48.6	comparisons between some of the things that were happening and they are taking place today.
0:54.0	Growing up under communism coming right up on Travel with Rick Steeves.
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1:12.0	American Airlines knows why you fly. I'm Rick
1:15.1	Steve's and this is travel with Rick Steve's. We're going back right now to
1:19.7	before 1989 when half of Europe was under the rule of the Soviet Union and communism was the way of life.
1:26.0	I've got with me three former communists, Kasha Dalitska from Warsaw Poland, Tina Haiti from Slovenia, and Marianne Kisholm. from Did I get your names right? Yeah. Pretty good. Not really.
1:44.0	No.
1:45.0	Kasha Delitska. All right.
1:47.0	Hey, thanks for joining us.
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