New Old Town
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The Old Town Needs to Be Rebuilt
After the war, reeling from loss piled upon loss, historic Warsaw took on a new meaning. Now that it was missing completely, it had more power and Polish people's memory than if it was around. So to the communist way of thinking, the old town needed to be rebuilt so that it could be forgotten. By bringing the old city back, the communists made it, and hopefully their partner's destruction, forgettable.
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