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The column is a partly satirical, partly serious response to the outcome of the 1995 presidential elections in Poland, in which former Communist Aleksander Kwaśniewski was elected President, defeating the incumbent, Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa. The author is both critical of, and yet not unsympathetic to, the indignant and despairing reaction of many Polish Australians to the election results; he declares himself a fence-sitter.
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English translation of the title: Canned Fish in Tomato Sauce
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Editor's note: 'Kurier Zachodni', Perth, November-December 1995.
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The title alludes to a famous 1936 poem of the same name by Polish poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, which satirised the conservative Polish government at the time and mocked Poles for supporting it.
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Skumbrie w tomacie
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cPoland,cEastern Europe, Europe,
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