I Could Live in Africa
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"I Could Live in Africa" takes you on a trip into the exotic, from today’s perspective, 1980s.

When, following a hot August (the Solidarity agreements, 1980), came the cold December of 1981, Apocalypse Now was to open in the cinemas, and tanks suddenly appeared in the streets. TV and radio kept broadcasting the worried Gen Jaruzelski announcing, through clenched teeth, the introduction of martial law. The borders were closed, a curfew was introduced. Shop shelves were empty, yet long queues formed outside. There were cuts in power and gas supply, petrol was rationed.

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