Nowa Huta Stands Up To Communism

The Historical Museum of Krakow opens a new exhibition dedicated to the more belligerent face of the perfect socialist city hopeful, Nowa Huta. Even since its inception, in the youngest distict of Krakow, Nowa Huta, lived people who would never accept the soviet system in Poland: former Home Army soldiers, pre-war officers, and degraded intelligentsia representatives often expressed their criticism towards communist authorities.

The first street riots broke out just in late 1950's, and the reason behind was the decline of a building permit for a church. The conflict thus ended the social experiment to grow in Nowa Huta "the socialist man", and gave birth to Nowa Huta resistance, that finally reaped its victory in 1989 first post WW II democratic election.