Working in foreign companies, he says, helps Poles shed their instinctive distrust of authority.
Bearing scratchy, unauthorized copies of recordings by the pop luminaries Tom Jones and Andy Williams, as well as American funk and disco acts like Donna Summer and Hot Chocolate, sound postcards helped Poles cut off from Western pop culture to partake of its ephemeral pleasures.
Krzysztof Kawczynski, coordinator at east London-based charity Flowers of Human Hearts, which helps Poles find accommodation and jobs and also runs a homeless shelter, says that the charity has noted a steep rise in the number of Poles being violently attacked since the start of the recession.
Reading Ms Richie's book may help non-Poles begin to understand the depth of those feelings.
Raskolnikov used that argument to help justify pole-axing an old moneylender and robbing her of her hoard.
The election pitch of PiS was based on Polish nationalism, Catholicism and promises to help poorer Poles.
"It will help the Poles, of course," said Torsten Klaent, 35, a native of Görlitz who rode his bicycle across the border to shop in Poland.
WASHINGTON — On May 28 of last year, President Obama stood next to Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland in Warsaw and declared he would support new rules to help more Poles get tourist visas to the United States.
Worryingly for PiS, a socially conservative, eurosceptic party which swept to power last October with pledges to help poorer Poles and to boost the state's role in the economy, some of the women protesters had previously voted for the party.
Help slide the pole sleeve material over the tent pole ferules.
