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Get CyberGhost for just $2.03 per month and an extra four months for free here: https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/SirManatee 🦦 If you like my videos and want to make sure that I make more of them, you can support me here: https://ko-fi.com/sirmanatee When walking through the city of Wrocław, any visitor will inevitably stumble upon one of the 800 dwarfs that are spread all throughout the city. Each dwarf has its own personality and engages in certain activities. This of course begs the question: What do they even mean? Is there a symbolic reason behind them or are they just here for fun? This video will answer that question and will also explore how humour was used in 1980s Poland to fight authoritarianism. Literature: - Borodziej, Włodzimierz: Geschichte Polens im 20. Jahrhundert, München 2010. - Stein, Eliot: The cheeky gnomes taking over Wrocław, in: BBC, 18.10.2017, https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171017-the-truth-behind-wrocaws-cheeky-gnomes (accessed on 21.03.2024). - Szymanski-Düll, Berenika: Strategies of Protest from Wroclaw. The Orange Alternative or the Riot of the Gnomes, in: Journal of Urban History 41 (2015), Nr. 4, pp. 665-678. - Tyszka, Juliusz: The Orange Alternative. Street Happenings as Social Performance in Poland under Martial Law, in: New Theatre Quarterly 14 (1998), Nr. 56, pp. 311-323. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 2:00 CyberGhost VPN 3:28 Poland in the 1980s 5:41 Jaruzelski imposes Martial Law 6:58 Birth of the Orange Alternative 8:00 Street Happenings 11:32 Wrocław Dwarfs 13:00 Outro