Nowa Huta: Poland's dystopian, communist city! 🇵🇱
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Krakow is renowned for being one of the most beautiful places in all of Europe. With masses of history, a extremely low crime rate and excellent hospitality you can't really go wrong.
Many tourists stay within the main city centre, however I decided to venture off into the unknown.
On the very outskirts of Krakow, Nowa Huta exists. A purposely planned, socialist realist utopian city, ordered to be built by Stalin himself in 1949.
I decided to explore the backstreets, check out the main sights and go on a epic bunker hunt!
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#poland #history #nowahuta #sovietunion #soviet #communism
Timestamps:
Soviet neighbourhood: 0:50
History of Nowa Huta: 2:40
What is Poland like today: 4:08
Soviet architecture: 5:11
Bunker hunt: 9:10
Nice one. I too found Nova Huta in 2017. I always explore the outskirts. Do tourists ever see anything more than Rynek Glowny? (My much longer comment has disappeared!).
Gdansk and its regional surrounds are my favourite in PL. 👍💯🇬🇧✔😎
@@InvictaView that's weird, TH-cam deleted your comment??
@@InvictaView yeah I did Gdansk back in 2019 was very very beautiful
@@EdBrinton Yes. It was here, in your first comment, or so I thought, yesterday. I could try and repost it. 🤔
@@InvictaView that's very weird.... TH-cam is crazy
Sorry I had to film inside the bunkers on my phone, wasn't allowed to bring my camera inside! Hope you enjoy 😊
Worth it Bruv.
@@edd60 hope you enjoyed mate cheers
Loved this content. Would love to see a bit more of Poland in future vids mate
@@archie592 cheers mate I appreciate that!
Thanks for an interesting peek into Poland. You're rocking the new hair-do!
@@lezking5060 thanks so much!
This is genuinely by far your best video!
@@Lechonberryph thanks so much
Np bro @@EdBrinton
In London, I work with colleagues from Krakow where our bank has offshored operations. They all tell me, everything being equal, they would never move to the UK (although many have been given the opportunity). In Poland, university education is free, heath care is excellent. Great Internet. Good public transport. A number of national parks are close by for hiking in the summer. Overall, a higher standard of living there.
@@Truthseeker1515 super clean and safe in Poland. Not so much on the so called "west"
Interesting
@@EdBrinton I wouldn't call Poland safe now. Crime-wise, yes it is safe, but it's flooded in many places and it's getting worse.
Looks so peaceful and safe but also so intimidating at the same time
@@James-m9k4w agreed
Very interesting to see how the Soviet history has affected certain places still, the brutalist architecture is everywhere, everywhere seems to be really quiet but the levels of discipline is crazy still.
@@will_n775 yeah it's was super interesting to go, will definitely do more places like this
I think there's a town that worships Stalin in Georgia
The bunkers looked very spooky 😮
Poland never was a soviet republic mate
@@thecior I know mate, it was a satellite state, I think i accidentally said both in the video in auto pilot 😅
You went to revive Stalin 😂. Is Soviet Republics dead?
The graffiti is bad for the beautiful architecture on the display.
@@edd60 hahahah pretty much bro
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@@LARACATANA91 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
you are starting the video in the "newest" part of Nowa Huta- Centrum E was built between 1988 and 1995. If i remember correctly not much was really happening before 1990 and the construction started progressing after transformation. In my and many residents opinion this a controversial estate as it differ from Socialist realism architecture of the precinct with its postmodern architecture. choice of colours used for buildings are more typical for 90s in Poland as well
other things that you've mentioned in the material are benches- you are correct that they were painted green in the past, but again bench on the video is modern- 1999/2010? old ones were made of casted iron with wooden (green) seating.
@@wiktorszostekjanik8786 thanks for your comment mate
0:50 Poland was in soviet block but was not a part of Soviet Union. Referring to Poland as "ex-soviet republic" (you do it also later in the video) is historically incorrect.
@@marek2733 thanks for pointing that out, yeah I went into autopilot and accidentally said it. Of course Poland was a satellite state heavily influenced by the Ussr. Cheers
Ahhhh
Go go Gori!
@@mandymclan that's such a good idea