Friday, January 21, 2011
‘Communist Monopoly’
A Polish Board Game
From Spiegel Online by Jill Petzinger, ‘Communist Monopoly’ Teaches Downside of Socialist Life
A Polish research institute has developed a board game to teach young people about life under Communism. In the game, which is inspired by Monopoly, players must wait in endless lines at stores for scarce goods. For added realism, they have to put up with people cutting in line and products running out—unless they have a “colleague in the government” card.
The goal of the game, which will officially be launched on Feb. 5, is to show how hard and frustrating it was for an average person to simply do their shopping under the Communist regime in Poland.
Read the rest, here.
Someone ought to create a board game to teach life under Obamacare. It would probably be a hit!
Posted by Steve on 01/21 at 08:08 AM
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