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Communism meets monopoly in unlikely new board game

January 25th, 2011 dailywail Comments off

Communist monopoly is set to hit stores in Poland this week: Europics.at

A Communist version of the Monopoly board game called Queue in which players have to…queue, has gone on sale in Poland.

Players of the Communist version get a list of 10 essential items like bread and toilet paper and have to travel around the board joining queues to get into state owned shops.

And instead of Chance and Community Chest, players can draw wild cards that get them sent to the front because of a Communist Party connection or see a shop closed down for ‘decadence’.

The game – created by the country’s National Remembrance Institute – is designed to show schoolchildren what life was like under the old Soviet era rule.

And it not only makes players understand shopping in Poland under communism.

The game’s creator Karol Madaj told the Austrian Times: “This also teaches them what queueing is like, something most people seem to have forgotten.”

Communist monopoly is a little greyer than the traditional version

Animal cruelty in China alive and well

January 22nd, 2011 dailywail Comments off

Animal cruelty in China is clearly alive and well: Europics.at

Animal cruelty is clearly alive in China, judging by these astonishing pictures.

Locals attacked a wild boar in a city centre with sticks and clubs, before police shot the animal – and then ate it.

The huge pig had burst into a hospital complex in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, northern China, and charged at staff.

“It was mad with hunger and when we tried to stop it, the boar came after us,” said a hospital spokesman.

“No matter what we did we couldn’t drive it away.”

But when police arrived and finally cornered the 200lbs animal, rather than trap or tranquilise it they pumped 13 rounds from their handguns into it’s exhausted body – and then carted the carcass off to the local butcher.

One officer, who asked not to be named, told the Austrian Times: “He turned it into some very tasty cuts which we cooked and ate that night as a feast for the whole station.

“It’s sad he had to die but he made a delicious meal.

Animal cruelty in action: A policeman takes aim

Animal Cruelty: A man ties a rope around the dead carcus

Animal cruelty: The bloody dead animal is dragged into a police van