Nowa Huta: A Communist Planned Workers' Town

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A fascinating corner of Kraków is Nowa Huta, an enormous planned workers’ town that offers a glimpse into the stark, grand-scale aesthetics of the communists. It’s a company town, purpose-built from scratch to house the 38,000 workers of the Lenin Steelworks. Today the steelworks is mostly closed, and it's a bedroom community for Kraków. I find wandering its numbered sectors very evocative. More information about travel to Kraków: https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/poland/krakow

Published 2014-09-05 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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