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/^t/Should we join the EEC? When asked most people in Poland would say - yes. At the same time the majority of Poles do not even know some basic facts about the Union. We do not think about the costs connected with this agreement, nor possible dangers, like unemployment, that may result - all we really want is to catch that train no matter what the fare is. This phenomenon can be explained if we consider that Poland was for almost fifty years an isolated satellite country of the USSR.