| | POLAND: Socialist Model City Fights for a Future |
 | | NOWA HUTA, Apr 18 (IPS) - From communist showcase to bastion of anti-communism, the Stalin-era model city of Nowa Huta is now being stigmatised by Poles who depict it as Krakow's criminal hub and a place without a future. |
 | | Construction of Nowa Huta (New Steel Mill), now a district north-east of Krakow, a city of 1.4 million about 300km south of capital Warsaw, began in 1949 as authorities of then People's Republic of Poland decided to build an autonomous model city around the Lenin Steel Works. |
 | | Nowa Huta was planned so as to make schools, health care and stores easily reachable for residents, and soon cultural centres, theatres and sports facilities were added to provide it with the infrastructure of a large city. |
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